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Racial Profiling on the Rise
Posted on September 14, 2004
Cynthia Fujikawa's Day of Remembrance and Rob Mikurya's new media project Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy both capture the anguish of being an American with the face of the "enemy." Unfortuately this trend continues — a newly released report by Amnesty International indicates that racial profilling has increased in the USA post 9/11.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Nearly 32 million Americans, including 1.5 million in Illinois, have been victims of racial profiling by authorities, a practice that has increased since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an Amnesty International USA report released Monday stated.
The study—a result of 100-plus interviews, extrapolated polling data, census records and university studies—also warned that 87 million Americans were at risk of being targeted because of their race, ethnicity or religious background.
Profiling of Muslims and those of Middle Eastern or South Asian ancestry also has substantially increased since the terrorist attacks, the report stated.
Read the Chicago Tribune article.
Read the Amnesty International report.
Watch Day of Remembrance.
Watch Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy.