A Never Ending Issue "Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues." That is the claim of the man named Harry Balefonte, a 1950s civil rights leader. Balefonte claims even despite a millennia of work, there remains no clear method to completely eliminate racism. Whilst there are regulations prohibiting racial profiling, they have not stopped this issue from recurring. Racial profiling continues to be prevalent; the laws in place have recently rendered it prohibited to be carried out in court. In spite of this, racial profiling standards continue to be violated by numerous people. Despite that, people still commit acts against the laws of racial profiling. Therefore, …show more content…
A case by the name of “Driving White Black” in Maryland The ACLU opened a class-action lawsuit against the Maryland State Police in 1993 on behalf of Robert L. Wilkins, an African American attorney who was stopped, detained, and searched by the police in Maryland without any apparent justification. Records indicated that African Americans had been unlawfully discriminated against by the MSP. Reginald T. Shuford, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Racial Justice Program, declared that "there can be no denying that racial profiling by police continues to persist in communities across the nation, despite ongoing efforts to combat it...Hopefully today’s decision will set a powerful precedent for transparency that will enable any police department that illegally and unconstitutionally targets people of color to be held accountable.” (ACLU p. 2). In the words of Shuford, nationwide police do not dispute that they have not engaged in racial profiling, as they have appeared to have done. It further states that the events of that day will make it unlawful to target individuals of a different race without providing any supporting …show more content…
The neighborhood has been impacted since African Americans may now experience anxiety just from driving. A matter of 2022 illustrates racial profiling regardless of the fact the law went into effect in 2003. The original Susa and Hernandez v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection case went to trial in Havre, Montana. The case began on May 16, 2018, when Mimi Hernandez and Ana Suda were speaking Spanish and were wrongfully convicted by Agent O'Neill in a grocery store who happened to overhear them, further than their ability to speak Spanish, he had no further proof that they were undocumented immigrants.“The reason I asked you for your ID,” Mr. O’Neill said, “is because I came in here and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish which is very unheard-of here.” (Waller p. 5). Agent O'Neill just made assumptions based on the girls' race and linguistic proficiency. That has an impact on the girls as well as the neighborhood citizens and how they might be scared to speak their own language. What he has done affects his community greatly, but it has also made Agent O’Neill look like a terrible