CNN: This is why everyday racial profiling is so dangerous

[EffieBlack]

The headlines pop up with alarming frequency: People of color going about their daily business -- shopping, golfing, moving in -- only to have the cops called on them.

But for every story that makes the news, there are countless others that don't involve police. Black customers who get followed too closely by store employees. Hispanic students and Muslims who get asked if they're really American.

This is everyday racial profiling -- and it doesn't just hurt the victims. It has an insidious ripple effect on the rest of society -- in business, health and public safety.
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But there's a hidden and much more common danger to racial profiling -- long-term health problems.

"There are enormous health consequences to those experiencing these everyday harms ... because of the constancy of this stress," said Rachel Godsil of the Perception Institute, a research group that helps organizations reduce discrimination.
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Godsil urges those who are white to think about what it must be like to live under a cloud of suspicion and to acknowledge that. "That's something that those of us who are white never have to think about," she said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/11/us/everyday-racial-profiling-consequences-trnd/index.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. When Putin's on the ground KGB agents stopped 70,000 black people from casting

votes for president in MI, for instance, it became a war on brown people and on behalf of putin and rump.

[Anon-C]

3. It has, and this black vet father of three is going to fight for his life and that of his family.

I'm done suffering for the comfort and expectations of White Americans who want a right to treat me as semi-human in 2018. I didn't swear an oath to defend a fascist state and a caste system. They gave the goods to wrong one.

De Oppresso Liber!

[mcar]

2. I cannot imagine what it must be like to live under that stress

Every day. Never knowing if you will be stopped, harassed, arrested or worse for absolutely anything.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. I see it in the faces of almost every brown person I see in public.

We are a fascist state or almost, yet we cant get HALF the country to talk about it.

I dont mean we cant get the half that are asshole cons, I mean we cant get the other side to talk either

[femmedem]

5. I conducted an oral history of a black woman in her '80's.

The interview was ostensibly about her experience of being displaced by urban renewal in the 1960's. After we'd covered the ground we'd discussed prior to the interview, I asked her if there was anything else she wanted to share.

She spoke about a time she'd been accused of shoplifting in a store she frequented. The next week, after I'd transcribed the interview, we had an appointment for her to sign a release form. I played the full interview for her then, and when she heard herself talk about being falsely accused of shoplifting, she burst into tears.