VivirLatino

Racial and ethnic profiling is all over the media. Last night, with a knot in my stomach, I watched the local news talk about the raids that happened all along the U.S. Northeast in search of those involved with the failed Times Square bombing fireworks show. I do not feel any safer.
As a survivor of 9-11-01, I feel less safe when I hear pundits on television saying this is the way to do ethnic profiling. Already one of the Muslim Junior High School students I work with is being bullied again. I don’t think she feels any safer either. I especially feel less safe for her and so many others when it is being argued that it is ok to suspend Constitutional Rights in the name of the “war on terror”.

And before anyone jumps on me in the comments section, pointing out to me that this site is called VivirLatino, here is the connection.

Recently another report came out of my city, New York City, saying that people of color, specifically Blacks and Latinos were more likely to be stopped and frisked BUT that they were not more likely to get arrested. Meaning that ::gasp:: Blacks and Latinos are not more predisposed to criminality. We just always seem to fit the description or look “suspicious”. Don’t tell that to a “cop in the hood” though. It just makes sense that more of “us” are stopped in “our” neighborhoods.

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