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  • Essay / Violation of Basic Human Rights - 2085

    From the days of the nation's founding father, President George Washington, to the current Barack Obama, the United States of America has endured countless struggles to become the ultimate world power. force. Despite the scale of these types of struggles, the protection of basic human rights has become one of the United States' greatest symbols of success and prosperity. It has become the most established democracy in the world, respecting civil liberties for people of all ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. In this light, the issue of racial discrimination is more or less synonymous with the violation of these fundamental human rights. Even since the beginnings of the slave trade, racial profiling has always been a negative part of the history of such a revered country. It is therefore despicable to envisage a situation in which racial profiling would be accepted as a police practice. Profiling is a daily occurrence in the United States and innocent people are found guilty of crimes they did not commit. The government's policy on this subject has also had negative effects on American society and if nothing is done to improve the situation, the United States will never be the true protector of human rights, the principle on which this country was founded. is irrational, unfair, and unproductive, but it is not that racial profiling has been a part of the American criminal justice system for as long as there has been an American criminal justice system and is a part of justice North American colonial. systems in the centuries preceding its formation. (add quote) Racial profiling is not just a modern problem; this has existed in America since 1533 (O'Neal, 2014), when K...... middle of paper ......al segregation of suspects in the minds of police officers, and this creates an environment of second area. citizenship for Black and Latino Americans” (Head) Therefore, racial profiling in the United States must end. Our founding fathers founded a nation based on natural rights and freedom, but for over five decades, Americans (Native Americans, Blacks, etc.) have been discriminated against and treated as second-class citizens. Without the support of the federal and state governments and the Supreme Court, the nation is doomed and racial profiling will continue until the end of the war. Our nation was founded on the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and there are too many minority groups who have been victims of prejudice and racial profiling for this to truly happen in a country that prides itself on these ideals..