Unending and chronic racism and racial profiling in America
A significant number of blacks are increasingly considering leaving America because of the unending and chronic racism and racial profiling which executed through police brutality. Bashir claims that “When my husband was still living there, black people accounted for 14 per cent of the overall population, but 43 per cent of arrests.” The racial profiling is persistent in the U.S, and this trend is not about to end soon because even after decades of protests, young black lives continue to be on the line because of their skin colour. The statistics of how black women are likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth shows her argument why America is not a haven for her son or other blacks to live peacefully.
I would recommend they try Anglo and Latin countries that are considered to be most tolerant when it comes to having a racially diverse culture. The Anglo and Latin Americans are considered to be the most welcoming of neighbours who do not share the same race, and this will be an ideal place to live and work.
Question two
In this generation, people are continuously exposed to media and other assumptions about other people which lead to implicit bias. The correlation of one thins with another as being the constant definitions has been used to profile black men racially. In Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism video, implicit bias has facilitated racial profiling “, and in many forms of media, there is an overrepresentation of black men and violence being paired together” (Reshamwala1:35). Watching the video, I learned that implicit bias is something that human beings are fed or exposed to from an early age which creates a representation or meaning about a particular thing or people. The peanut and jelly analogy is about the danger of always correlating one thing with another without a solid reason. Hanging out allows people to interact and engage in meaningful conversations that lead to comprehension of other people in the society which eliminates implicit bias. Hanging out is magical because it overrules our implicit bias about certain people. I believe we can overcome biases if we can choose to interact and socialize with other races than relying on media to tell us who they are or what they do.
Question 3
Nicholas Kristoff argues that defunding the police does not mean eliminating the laws enforcement but using other means of policing because of the present one “It’s often racist and neither effective nor equitable, disproportionately failing black Americans but also letting down white Americans” (Kristof). I agree that defunding the police in the U.S is a good idea because the current form of policing is marred with taints of police brutality and racial profiling. The best way is to include the community in the policing, and this current momentum of police reform should consider this as the first step to an equitable and unbiased law enforcement departments.