Personal side of Bias, Prejudice and Oppression

Personal side of Bias, Prejudice and Oppression

 When I was young my family and I went to musical event for the community to enjoy good music, food and dancing. My uncle went with us and liked dancing and enjoy a cup of beer with his chicken wings and fries. He is an outgoing and has an active personality. I remember this incident like it was yesterday, he was dancing and accidental tripped on something in the street. I heard a white lady say, “oh my goodness that is ridiculous, he is so drunk he cannot stand up, it is because of their kind I don’t like to come to these events". There was a police officer passing by and heard her remark, he quickly came to my uncle and begin to push him to the sidewalk and saying to him you are about to be arrested for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

My uncle tried to tell the officer he tripped but the officer told him to be quite and my dad try to tell him what happen but it did not change the next action that took place. My uncle was handcuffed and taken off to jail. This was not right and to me it was a form of racial profiling and oppression because of the color of his skin. People of color have experienced these types of stereotyping for years and it seems in order for us to be accepted by the dominant power cultural we have to continuously act a certain way. 

I talked to a friend about the assignment and she told me about the following incident that happens in Ohio. After reading the article I thought back to that day my uncle was discriminated against in a similar situation I had to thank God he was taken off to jail.
There are always reports from the media that relate to the bias, prejudice and oppressive acts people of color experience every day. The society we live in today still treat people that are from other countries, races, gender and cultural background unjustly as they did years ago. This was no different in the news report of an incident that occurred in Ohio on January 20, 2014.

The topic of the report was:  Suit: Cops Left Hispanic Drunk Guy at Taco Bell which gave a detailed description that lead to the death of a 22 year old Hispanic man. The Ohio police received a call and responded to reports of a drunk driver who had pulled over on the side of the road. The officers noticed the man was Hispanic and instead of arresting him they took him to a “Taco Bell” and left him there, the tragedy occurred when the man woke up he started walking possibly back to his car and was killed by a car traveling on the road.

 The prejudice acts of the police officers also resulted in them making racial remarks about the young man Mexican roots and reported that officers were recorded laughing at the man's poor English and suggesting someone at Taco Bell would be able to speak with him. This was an awful stereotyping of the man cultural and race. The other point of this case was the authority’s in Ohio believed the young man was being given a break because he may have not been a legal citizen of th3e United States.

 Though this family will receive monetary imbursement their family member is dead due the racial profiling of law enforcement official that have taken an oath of protecting the safety of all people. Will this type of prejudices ever come to an end and all people can feel that will not be judged on the color of their skin or their cultural backgrounds. The ensure the equality of all people there has to be laws established for people in law enforcement and high authority to follow and if they do not there needs to be stiffer penalties on them. We all have a right to live in a world that is safe fair and without prejudices and unfairness.

 Please read the article: http://www.newser.com/story/181004/suit-cops-left-hispanic-drunk-guy-at-taco-bell.html