Eyes shut wide open

Design plan for my Research Paper
Agnes Harris


My topic is how racial profiling has affected people today. The question I want to ask is how has certain factors played a major role in racial profiling of African Americans.

My listeners are student who are in college, high school, and business professional people. Individuals’ globally should be concerned because as children we are taught to distinguish different colors. Therefore it makes us all socially aware if someone skin color is different from our own. This situation causes problem because some individuals of one skin color believe they are superior than another.

There are certain listeners who think racial profiling does not continues today. What racial profiling does is limits an individual from getting to know that person for who they really are. Racial profiling hurts many African American people who would have gotten a chance if they were not judged by the color of their skin. Martin Luther King Jr. said his speech the best, “I want my children to grow up in a nation where they won’t be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. I do not want an issue like racial profiling swept underneath the rug because a certain individual is someone’s mother, brother, sister, wife, father, or even husband. I believe racial profiling is not talked about because it seems to always raise red flags.

When I presented racial profiling to other student in my classes or even people I work with, some individual did not even to grasps how the Civil Rights Movement even played a significant role in racial profiling. I being to explain to one co-worker how the Civil Rights Movement made it where African American could drink from the same water fountain as Caucasian American, African American could buy a house outside of the redlining district, and African Americans could even make wages similar to people of different skin color.

My topic seems oblivious to certain listeners. So therefore I want to start my research paper off with the definition of racial profiling. I believe some of my audience will be shocked to know racial profiling is in encyclopedias and dictionaries. Also I could give factual evidence of African American being racial profiled against. Hopefully, my audience will be able to grasps how racial profiling is being overlooked.

After presenting the opening of my research paper I will present to my listeners how history coexists with racial profiling. I believe presenting history to my audience will allow students and others to understand (know) where our country has came from. Some philosopher said a statement the best, “You can’t know where you are going until you know where you came from”.

Then I will give statics on how racial profiling happens every day. How some individual might not even be aware they are racial profiling. Meaning there is general rule of thumb that first impression is the most lasting impression someone has of an individual.

Last give some doctors information how children learn and pick up certain things within the first five years here on earth. This might even help some people to understand some issues were installed in us when where tiny children. The doctor’s information will allow a more broader overview of the issue and how certain factors lead up a more bigger problem.

By the end of my research paper I want my audience to understand how something so “small” as racial profiling can be overlooked by massive number of people. Stereotypes is very similar to racial profiling, however the audience will know the difference of stereotypes and racial profiling.