10/13 Homework

– Racial profiling/stereotypes
– K-KNOW: In the world, there are many cases in which people around the US and the globe racially discriminate against other people, damaging their background, safety, and confidence to live in society. This can also create disagreement between people and can end up in violence and even deadly situations. Racial profiling and stereotypes have been going around ever since many immigrants came to foreign countries for opportunities for work and stability.
– W-WANT: I would want to know when exactly it could’ve started, as in where was the place in which the most discrimination and racial profiling started, as well as statistics of the races/communities most affected. I also want to know the cause and effects of situations in which they racially profile or stereotyped someone and parts of the world where these events happen the most.
– L-LEARNED: I learned that back in the south in the 19th and early 20th-century southern sheriffs sat unbothered while racist groups such as the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) terrorized African Americans, to the point where even the sheriffs themselves released imprisoned African Americans into those racists mobs to be lynched and tortured. On February 4, 1999, Amadou Diallo an unarmed 22-year-old immigrant from New Guinea, west Africa, was shot and killed in the apartment building he lived in by four white officers by the names of Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss, Edward McMillon, and Richard Murphy. They all had fired 41 shots and only 19 of them hit Amadou, those four officers were known for terrorizing slogans such as “We own the night” and brutal tactics against African Americans. In December 1999 a report of the New York City Police Departments’ pedestrian “stop and frisk” practices by the state attorney general provided evidence of racial profiling, resulting in African Americas comprising 25.6 percent of the City’s population, yet 50.6 percent of all persons “stopped” during the period were black. Hispanics created 23.7 percent of the City’s population yet, 33.0 percent of all “stops” were of Hispanics. By contrast, whites are 43.4 percent of the City’s population but accounted for only 12.9 percent of all stops. African Americans comprise 62.7 percent of all civilians “stopped” by the NYPD.
– X-STILL WANT TO KNOW: I would like to know more about the cause and results of racial profiling arguments, as well as what huge events in society such as an incident, a political figure, or international conflict created or has created stereotypes and racial profiling to certain ethnic groups related to those events/conflicts.