Violation of Fundamental Human Rights

Ever since the era of the nation’s founding father, President George Washington up to the incumbent Barack Obama, the United States of America has endured innumerous struggles in its rise to become the world’s ultimate global force. Despite the extensive nature of these kinds of struggles, protection of fundamental human rights has become one of America’s greatest symbols of success and prosperity. It has become the world’s most established democracy with high regard for civil liberties for people from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. In line with this, the issue of racial discrimination is more or less synonymous with the violation of these fundamental human rights. Even since the early days of slave trade, racial profiling has always been a negative part of such a revered country’s history. Consequently, it is despicable to envisage a situation whereby racial profiling is accepted as a practice for law enforcement. Profiling occurs every day in the United States and innocent people are convicted of crimes that they didn’t commit. The government's policy on this topic has also had adverse effects on American society and if something is not done to ameliorate the situation, the United States will never be the true protector of human rights, a principle on which this country was founded.

"Racial profiling is irrational, unjust, and unproductive, but one thing it is not is un-American. Racial profiling has been part of the U.S. criminal justice system for as long as there has been a U.S. criminal justice system, and part of North American colonial justice systems in the centuries prior to its formation." (add citation) Racial profiling is not just a modern issue; it has existed in America since 1533, (O’Neal, 2014) when K...

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...al segregation of suspects within the minds of police officers, and it creates a second-class citizenship for black and Latino Americans” (Head) Therefore, racial profiling in the United States must come to an end. Our founding fathers established a nation based on natural rights and freedom yet for over five decades Americans (Native Americans, blacks, etc.) have been discriminated against and treated like second-class citizens. Without the support of the federal and state governments along with the Supreme Court, the nation is doomed to failure and racial profiling will endure until the war is over. Our nation was founded on the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and there are too many minority groups that have been subject to prejudice and racial profiling for this to truly take place in a country that prides itself on these ideals.