Discriminatory Towards Minorities

The topic on rather or not most Americans are discriminatory towards minorities is an ongoing debate being argued in many recent controversies. For example, the Ahmed Mohamed Controversy. This controversy has been taking place since September 16, 2015. It involves a 14 year old freshmen who attended a Irving Texas high school. This freshmen was arrested and interrogated while being accused of bringing a hoax bomb to school. However, his invention was not really a bomb it was actually a clock. Ahmed’s high school suspended him for three days following his arrest. Left in confusion and hurt he decided to transfer schools as soon as he could. To some this may be an example of colorism. Colorism is the practice of discrimination against people

According to Kim Farbota, “If a black person and a white person each commit a crime, the black person is more likely to get arrested. This is due... to the fact that black people are more heavily policed” (Farbota par. 4). But why are these dark skinned people more policed? Usually dark skinned people live in dense Urban areas which makes it more convenient for police officers to patrol them. Still, how come police officers feel as if they should go out of one's way to patrol these people? Maybe because of the negative stereotypes swarming around in today’s society. According to About News, “Colorism does not just play out in the workforce or in the criminal justice system” (Nadra Nittle par. 11), however, Colorism affects everything within the real world. Sadly, our society has not taught us to embrace our differences and accept everyone for whom they are regardless of one's color. For example, negative stereotypes such as; “dark skinned people are not as smart as lighter skinned people”, and also, “dark skinned people are more likely to commit felons than lighter skinned people” are some of the negative stereotypes people place upon these darker skinned people

Yes, statistics does prove this, however, one does not look at all the dark skinned people wrongly accused of crimes because of skin color. Many prejudice judges, police officers, and attorneys look at race when determining one's judgment. Whenever one is wrongly convicted of a crime this does cause the statistics to rise. Which causes researchers to feel as if blacks are overly aggressive people who commits these brutal crimes. One may also feel as if all dark skinned people are the same because of previous encounters they have had with a dark skinned person. Judging all dark skin people based off of one negative encounter is completely inaccurate due to the many different people within the world regardless of one's skin color. Yes a dark skinned person may participate in a gang beating, however there are some dark skinned people whom are good people. Another reason people argue that dark skinned people are bad people is because of the negative stereotypes one places upon them. For instance, some people place the stereotypes that negatively profile these people as drug lords or also rapist. However, not all dark skinned people should be placed under this categories some light colored people could be place into this category as well. Therefore these stereotypes should not be placed on a particular skin color but should be placed on rather or not a person participates in those vulgar