Stereotyping v Profiling
- By Al Riggins
- Published 08/6/2009
- Religion
- Unrated
Al Riggins
I'm an educator with 30 years of experience in the field. I am also a pastor of a small congregation with large aspirations. I have published 3 novels and 2 Character Education books. I am also a motivator and leadership trainer and presenter. I love to write. I love educating people, especially young people and adults as well. I'm a married father of 4 great boys. I've mentored countless numbers of individuals of all ages. I just love sharing useful information.
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With much of the attention being given to the incident in Cambridge, Massachusetts, between Professor Gates and Officer Crowley, there's renew dialogue about racial profiling in America. Racial profiling is unfair treatment of individuals due to race, by someone of another race. There's an even more damaging form of profiling that's occurring within races. This form of profiling, I refer to as stereotypical labeling. Too often individuals of all races, ages, and backgrounds of stereotyped by someone and treated unfairly because of this view of that person. We must become more aware of this unfair lableing process and treatemnt of people because of it. We never know who we will need in a given situation. We may not know what harm we are doing to individuals we say that we love and who loves us.

