Henry Louis Gates
There has been some controversy reguardign Henry Louis Gates jr and his arrest. After arriving home from china after a long trip, he tried to forcefully gain access to his house after he discovered it was jammed. A lady, thinking he was trying to break in to someone’s house, called the police. When the police arrived, although shown accurate proof that he did indeed live inside of the house, they said gates was acting disorderly so they arrested him. Gates called it a racial issue. Personally, although I do not believe they were blatantly being racist, I do believe some profiling did occur in this case. Racism in our day and age opperates subtly and subconsciously, with preconcieved notions about a race acting as a little voice inside of our heads. In my opinion, profiling certainly occured.