{"id":450,"date":"2012-04-17T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2013-04-05T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:33:16","slug":"senate-hearing-discuss-racial-profiling-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Senate hearing discuss racial profiling in america"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bet.com\/topics\/b\/barack-obama.html\">President Obama\u2019s<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">\u00a0election was supposed to be a signal that the United States was ready to put its painful racial history in the past. Instead, it seems the nation has moved backward as it continues to grapple with issues like\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/racial-justice\/racial-profiling\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">racial profiling<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How and why it continues to occur, and the subsequent repercussions like the fatal shooting of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bet.com\/topics\/t\/trayvon-martin.html\">Trayvon Martin<\/a>, will be the topic of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/about\/subcommittees\/constitution.cfm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/hearings\/hearing.cfm?id=cbe9d491fb674660dfb1774bdef05358\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">hearing<\/a>\u00a0on April 17. It will be the first hearing on racial profiling since the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The subcommittee] will explore how profiling harms law enforcement and the different faces of racial profiling, including state\u00a0<a id=\"_GPLITA_3\" title=\"Powered by Text-Enhance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bet.com\/news\/politics\/2012\/04\/11\/senate-hearing-to-probe-the-hows-and-whys-of-racial-profiling.html#\">immigration laws<\/a>\u00a0in Alabama and Arizona that subject Hispanic-Americans to heightened scrutiny, discriminatory law enforcement against African-Americans and anti-terrorism efforts that target American Muslims,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/durbin.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/pressreleases?ID=85c6d30a-e949-4df3-afbf-7d3e004032da\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0subcommittee Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/durbin.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/pressreleases?ID=85c6d30a-e949-4df3-afbf-7d3e004032da\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Dick Durbin<\/a>\u00a0(D-Illinois).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trayvon Martin case did not\u00a0<a id=\"_GPLITA_2\" title=\"Powered by Text-Enhance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bet.com\/news\/politics\/2012\/04\/11\/senate-hearing-to-probe-the-hows-and-whys-of-racial-profiling.html#\">spark<\/a>\u00a0the hearing, although it will certainly come up given its high-profile status. It also will examine proposed solutions to ending racial profiling, such as the End Racial Profiling Act, closing loopholes in the Justice Department\u2019s racial profiling guidance and the agency\u2019s Civil Rights Division\u2019s enforcement of federal civil rights laws to prevent state and local law enforcement agencies from profiling, according to a subcommittee advisory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A witness list has not yet been posted, but according to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20120411\/UNKNOWN\/120419857\/1005\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>The Post and Courier<\/em>, Dot Scott, president of the Charleston, South Carolina, NAACP, has been invited to testify. She has been a vocal critic of local efforts to crack down on crime in poor, Black neighborhoods, which she\u2019s characterized is in some instances \u201charassment of good citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s\u00a0election was supposed to be a signal that the United States was ready to put its painful racial history in the past. Instead, it seems the nation has moved backward as it continues to grapple with issues like\u00a0racial profiling. &nbsp; How and why it continues to occur, and the subsequent repercussions like the fatal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-politics","tag-racist-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}