Here it is (How can enlightened societies have institutionalized policies of race profiling? The Observer, October 17, 2010):
The use of police powers against black people in Britain is astonishing to me. Racial profiling is deeply rooted in ignorance and fear and hatred, which lead to violence.
It’s not just the personal humiliation of being stopped; it’s when these fears become institutionalized and accepted by government and the media and cultural policies.
The root of the crisis in Germany that led to the second world war was race profiling; if you were other than the superior race, you were profiled. It’s always ugly and immoral. In America they have built a whole industry around profiling people around colour. It’s called “driving while black”.
The US and Britain are both enlightened societies, with some of the best universities in the world. How can societies so enlightened have such institutionalized policies of race auditing and race profiling? If just one individual was involved, then that would be a problem, but this enormous disparity shows it is institutionalized.
Sometimes it is race, sometimes it is gender, sometimes it is religion, but categories of people are being targeted. We decry youth bullying in school because it is so unkind, but this profiling is bullying.
It undermines the promises of democracy, equal access and equal opportunity. In Britain it must be a matter of changing behaviour and then changing attitude.
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