Racial Profiling In Cry, The Beloved Country By Alan Paton

Cry, The Beloved Country In the novel Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton reveals how blacks were treated unfairly because whites profiled them as being uneducated, poor, and criminals. Similarly, one of the key issues in America today is Racial Profiling which leads to white police officers shooting and sometimes killing blacks. This profiling is most likely the result of white police officers thinking that blacks are not educated, poor, and often commit crime. This essay will focus on the causes of racial profiling in society and how it could be avoided in the future. In the novel Cry, the Beloved Country Paton shows that Absalom, who was the son of Rev. Stephen Kumalo, shot and killed Arthur Jarvis, who was a white engineer and†¦show more content†¦These areas of non-white housing become full of crime, diseases, and poverty. Children start dying at early age, desperate people commit crimes to try to escape poverty, and young black men are thrown in jail, or killed. As ci ty boundaries become a way of life, non-whites try to enter white neighborhoods to steal from the whites. In many cases, white residents go after non-whites by profiling them if they are found in white neighborhoods. As a result, Black men and women are either punished or forced out of white only areas. Another incident happened to a 17 year old boy named Trayvon Martin an African American. On February 2012, Martin was shot by a 28 year old Hispanic neighborhood watch coordinator named George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman shot Martin, who was unarmed, during an argument between both of them. Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin because he was a black walking through a neighborhood where he didn’t belong. Instead of taking a non violent approach Zimmerman quickly concluded after the argument that his life was in danger and felt justified to use deadly force to kill an unarmed man who was black. It is possible if Trayvon Martin had been white Zimmerman would have taken a softer approach to get rid of him from the neighborhood. Trayvon died because he was black and walking in a wealthy neighborhood where he did not live at