Racial Profiling and Domestic Terrorism: Making White Terror Invisible While Blaming the Victim
The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by Cambridge police again raised the issue of racial profiling of People of Color in North America.
As evidenced in President Obama’s attempt at a ‘teaching moment,’ the idea of racial profiling produces heated debate.
Most African Americans remain convinced that law enforcement agencies routinely use their race as criteria in criminal investigations while a majority of Whites and police vigorously dispute this claim.
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