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Essay: "Racial Profiling"by No Wolfin X A victim of racial profiling myself, I have seen Blacks who had accepted the racist view points of all Blacks who have braids and dreadlocks, as radical rebellious criminals. From my own understanding I know Blacks with long hair in America are profiled as outcasts, in mainstream America. I hear people tell Blacks to cut their hair for job interviews and attorneys tell Blacks to cut off their afros, braids, and dreadlocks for court, to look presentable to a Caucasian judge. I do no understand why a Black man with hair, is not presentable with hair in the courtroom. If I'm not judged by appearance, my hair should have no matter in what the criminal evidence presents. Jobs that do not accept my hair, I do not accept. These personal experiences are why I stopped cutting my afro, braids, and dreadlocks. I know rumors have spread that Black people with long hair is a sign of rebellion. In my case, it is. I wear my hair with honor of my African roots, as a sign of my own personal revolt to the administration of America. I will not comply to the Caucasian racist racial profiling views.
I also use my crown as a sign, to prove the racial profilers wrong, in any intellectual educational political and religious spiritual challenges. Often the other man and the brothermans have met and the other stated "But I was taught" but I would reply "I proved you wrong." Check yourself and others on how simple racial profiling effects the way I will get treated by an unconscious individual. I personally have gotten harassed for more than my hair. For my tattoos, I was considered a thug and one time being from New Orleans a drug dealer before I knew anything about drugs. I have been profiled for my slang talk but I'm a professional at selling cars and was a leading telemarketer, who sold a lot of items to rich Caucasian people. I was accused of being a drug dealer for having gold crowns in my mouth in Illinois, when where I'm from, gold teeth is very common. Basically I know when to and when not to use my situation . Professionally, I'm versatile, and due to this, I can relate to people universally not just from one level. I actually make it my business to learn about any culture around me. I have learned from Moorish Americans and other Muslims, Christians, African Hebrew Israelite Jews, witches or wiccans, voodoo conjurerers and other forms of masonary. I even have heard devil worshippers and racist groups tell their side of the story. All I've learned is people are afraid of what they do no understand. Malcolm X once said to students in Mississippi, "You'll get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it. When you get that kind of attitude, they'll label you a crazy 'Negro,' or they'll call you a 'crazy nigger,' they don't say Negro. Or they'll call you an extremist or a subversive, or seditious or a Red or a radical. But when you stay radical long enough and get enough people to be like you, you'll get your freedom." This is what I'm planning on doing with N.W.T., an organization I put together. The name should speak for itself, New Order-World Operational Leaders Forming International Nations -- Teaching Our Radical Revolution Operational Rehabilitation Ideal Situations. |