Obummer! Obumbles? (Silva 2009 (comments) and bumper stickers! (zazzle). Racial profiling has always been a problem and still is. Racial Profiling became more of a controversy, at least publicly, with the inauguration of the U.S. first Negro president. Even so, there are not many people who can stand up to the effects of racial profiling like Professor Henry Louis Gates (Goodnough, 2009) did, as he made national news with Police Sgt. James Crowley, then they had a beer with President Obama (NBC, 2009). Then, more recently there was Senator Reid's public apology for language, in private, that interprets into a very unbecoming slur (Drake 2010). Those are the prominent people. There are not many people who have the NAACP knocking at their door saying I want to help you but it won't be easy, like movie documentary, American Violet, a true story of Regina Kelly.(Haney, 2009 (2 min trailer)).
Racial profiling is controversial and prominent because it has roots in discrimination and the rights of humans as provided by God and the Constitution of the United States.
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