Racial Profiling: "Its Time to Put an End to this Unjust Practice" It has happened to actors such as Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, Blair Underwood and LeVar Burton. ... It would seem that skin color alone may very well make you a suspect in America, and more likely to be stopped by our law enforcement personnel. ... But law enforcement tactics remain concentrated in the inner city, continuing to feed the perception that drug dealers and users are black. ... The practice of profiling has "helped breed a deeply corrosive mistrust of law enforcement (Shipler...

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We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. ... Furthermore, to set an example, nine southern states adopted vagrancy laws. Vagrancy laws made it illegal to not have a job. These laws were mainly directed toward blacks (Alexander, 28). ... After slavery, the Jim Crow Laws were next in creating a caste system in America. ...

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Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. Lexington Books: Lexington, Mass, 1979. Bowker, Lee H. Prisoner Subcultures. Lexington Books: Lexington Mass, 1977. ...

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Civil Rights Movement African Americans have overcome many struggles as well as obstacles in the early years which have still not been terminated. African Americans have fought for freedom from enslavement, the right to earn a living, have land and a job, have equal justice, good quality educat...

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The reintegration of slaves, African Americans, had failed and certain laws were set up in order to maintain the divisions between black and white. Two elements from the time of Reconstruction and Post- Reconstruction were the so called Jim Crow Laws meant to segregate Whites from Blacks and the Order of the Ku Klux Klan, which maintained white supremacy through terror. ...

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