Stereotyping v Profiling
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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. By Al Riggins
Published on 08/6/2009
In light of the incident with Professor Gates and Officer Crowley in Massachusetts, there is this renewed dialogue concerning racial profiling. Just like racial profiling is damaging lives, there's another corrosive activity going on I call Stereotypical labeling. Stereotypical labeling is what too many people do on a daily basis, sometimes unaware. We stereotype individuals for our own reason and treated them or interact or react to them unfairly. We do it with our children, our mates, our coworkers, and so on. Many times we do it just out of habit or routine. We must be careful about the way that we view and treat other people, especially if the treatment is unwarranted. You never know who you might need.
Stereotyping v Profiling
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.