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James Rucker, ColorOfChange.orgLast week, Arizona passed a new law that makes racial profiling legal and, in effect, requires police to stop people based on their race and ethnicity.
Arizona's new law, SB 1070, says that police must question anyone they have “reasonable suspicion” of being an undocumented immigrant.1 Translation: police can now stop and harass people for no other reason than that they are brown-skinned or speak Spanish.
Black folks know all too well what it's like when police treat an entire community of people as potential criminals because of what they look like. It's demeaning, and it actually makes communities less safe by sowing distrust between police and community members.2,3,4
While ColorOfChange members have a variety of views about immigration, we hope we can all agree that racial profiling is wrong -- period.
Please join us and Presente.org in condemning racial profiling, no matter whom it targets. We'll present your signatures to Gov. Brewer of Arizona, as well as to President Obama and Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano. It takes just a moment:
http://www.colorofchange.org/sb1070/?id=2139-1159831
Thanks and Peace,
-- James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Milton and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
April 28, 2010
Arizona's new law, SB 1070, says that police must question anyone they have “reasonable suspicion” of being an undocumented immigrant.1 Translation: police can now stop and harass people for no other reason than that they are brown-skinned or speak Spanish.
Black folks know all too well what it's like when police treat an entire community of people as potential criminals because of what they look like. It's demeaning, and it actually makes communities less safe by sowing distrust between police and community members.2,3,4
While ColorOfChange members have a variety of views about immigration, we hope we can all agree that racial profiling is wrong -- period.
Please join us and Presente.org in condemning racial profiling, no matter whom it targets. We'll present your signatures to Gov. Brewer of Arizona, as well as to President Obama and Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano. It takes just a moment:
http://www.colorofchange.org/sb1070/?id=2139-1159831
Thanks and Peace,
-- James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Milton and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
April 28, 2010