Racial Profiling Why does my skin color or appearance transgress a comfort boundary, or to implement a person detecting me as a statistic? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines racism as “the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and abilities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” Too many innocent people have been victims of racial profiling. First, when racial profiling becomes a normal expectation, we become accustomed to the usual “suspicious looks, inattentive clerks, or rude service, not handcuffs,” when we shop in a store. (Jesse Washington). I have been racially profiled on numerous occasions, it's a really uncomfortable feeling to be in a restaurant, or a restaurant. Most shop assistants and police believe this. Chan, “a graduate student” as if having graduated gives him the right or credentials to know when to profile a person, says, “Like it or not I will have a preconceived notion of races from my experiences. As much as I would like this to put everyone on a level playing field, stereotypes play a role in our society…”, Yes, they do. That doesn't mean that every crazy looking gothic person will do something crazy, or every Arab you see will try to bomb the place. There are even police officers who claim that racial profiling is effective. Jeffery Goldberg quoted Carl Williams in the New York Time Magazine as saying, “Today, with this drug problem, the drug problem is cocaine or marijuana. Most likely a minority group is involved,” he was fired. When it comes to drugs, what is a minority group? I've seen all kinds of people deal with drugs and I'm not part of the police. So does one race deal with drugs more than other races or is that the type of person? Not assuming they know karate because there are African Americans selling drugs or because they are Chinese. Sergeant Mike Lewis says, "Ask me how many white people I've arrested for cocaine trafficking, ask me!" And he continues saying: “No one! Zero!" Although, to determine what kind of person someone is, you would have to actually talk to them and get to know them, not just perceive them as a serial killer, drug dealer, or martial artist because of their race. Crime has no race or should I say color. Crime is crime and I think it's time to look at it that way