Free Essay: Support for the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2019 (S. 2355)

While this proposed bill sponsored by Senator Ben Cardin from Maryland has been present in the Senate since mid-2019, it is unfortunate that the bill has received minimal – if any – attention. The law is currently stuck in its introduction stage despite the apparent deterioration in American society in racial relations that the act proposed to solve. The End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2019 (S. 2355) was introduced to end the ongoing profiling of racial and religious minorities in the United States by law enforcement agencies' legal processes ranging from arrests to detentions (Cardin). The act proposed to restore sanity in the increasingly ill-prepared and ill-compensated law enforcement that embarks on discriminatory and dehumanizing practices in handling minority offenders. Masked with pre-determined stereotypes about minorities, the officers tend to use excessive force in comprehending such minority suspects. This proposed bill thereby intends to restore the equality and ethical astuteness of the correctional agencies towards minority races and religions (Cardin).

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As it is currently explicit knowledge, Senator, there is current worldwide outcry around the continuing trend of police brutality on the black minority in America. The trend in police brutality in America has been an ongoing concern among such racial minority group for over three decades since the first recorded instance of such brutality began to circulate in the media circles in the 1990s (Duckitt and Sibley) Movements such as Black Lives Matter have as such initiated and continued the public participation trend that continues to gain more and more fire with every harassment and death of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers. While the public participation and influence of such activist movements become a global force, the United States Senate continues to stay inactive on legislations that may aid in such equality fights. This trend of non-action of the senate in such grave human rights concerns has led the public to lose trust in the entire political and legal system of the country.

As Lechner (2019) posits, America has been so engrossed in crippling antagonisms that trivialize great efforts like Human Lives to stand for the party and biased nationalistic loyalties. Senator McConnell, current American legislation, is so absorbed in left-versus-right wing politics that either side will undermine a bill that aims to restore the most basic human rights needs to prove their dominance in the house. The political divisions are so intense that thoughtful discourse is replaced by political polarization on every matter of widespread interest (Duckitt and Sibley). While the public has continued to raise their anger on police brutality on black men and women, we believe that the public is experiencing more significant distrust on the political and legal systems of the country. The simple fact that "the right to life" for some factions of society is a topic for debate is baffling. Public discourse and the ongoing purge in the US is, we believe, a culmination of years of discriminative and stereotypical systems that pushed the minority to the side and branded them as criminals.

Mr. Senator, as the majority leader of the senate, we would like to take this opportunity to beseech you to help restore the reputation of the US senate and push the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2019 (S. 2355) to restore the fundamental rights to humanity for the minorities (Cardin). As a call for attention to the current public outcry, the social unrests sweeping the nation, the global support for the movements to humanize the Black community of America and your overall concern for human dignity, we implore that you make a statement with this opportunity and help pass the anti-profiling act. The act will restore the public faith in the systems and rejuvenate the democratic structure of the country that is currently mired in sensationalism and cyclic blame loop.

Works Cited

Cardin, Benjamin. “End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2019 (S. 2355).” GovTrack.us, Gov Track, 31 July 2019, www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s2355.

Duckitt, John, and Chris G. Sibley. “Personality, Ideological Attitudes, and Group Identity as Predictors of Political Behavior in Majority and Minority Ethnic Groups.” Political Psychology, vol. 37, no. 1, 2014, pp. 109–124., doi:10.1111/pops.12222.

Lechner, Zachary J. “' Fault Lines' Traces the Roots of Today's Polarized America.” PopMatters, PopMatters, 12 Sept. 2019, www.popmatters.com/fault-lines-kruse-zelizer-2623971399.html?rebelltitem=2.