According to Robert Franklin, racial profiling is "Trying to assess and predict the behavior, motives, and character of other law-abiding people based on their physical appearance." Racial profiling has existed for many years. It has even existed in the Biblical era. As an example, according to the book of Exodus the Pharaoh of Egypt enslaved the Jewish people based on their beliefs. The purpose of this paper is to investigate wether racial profiling has changed since September 11, 2001. How do we as Americans feel about racial profiling? Are all Arabs Terrorist? Should the United states take special precautions toward Arabs or people who look like they are of Arab descent? I have looked at web articles, analyzed a cartoon, watched TV interviews, acted out skits, and conducted interviews and surveys to detect the answer to these questions. The following questions are to help empathize the issue of racial profiling.

In conducting my research for racial profiling, I First watched a TV interview with Bill Moyers. He interviewed a Muslim on how life is being a Muslim before and after September 11. I payed special interest to the interviewee on his reactions on personal Questions. Then I read a series of articles on racial profiling to see the different perceptions on racial profiling. I conducted a survey on racial profiling with a variety of Americans from different cultures and age groups (Appendix A). Four were African Americans, three Caucasians, and three Hispanics. Afterwards, I interviewed a 42 year old, male who works for the government in the World Embassy by the name of Richard Chambers (Appendix B). I also interviewed a 21 year old, female college student Veronica Malmstead (Appendix C). I analyzed a cartoon on racial profiling from the Union Tribune to see how they feel about racial profiling.

"Do Americans believe that Arabs have a higher probability of being terrorist?" As my next question. In his article "Racial Profiling" Franklin views Americans as police officers trying to predict the behavior of the Muslims. "A nation of bad cops, training our untrained eyes upon ambiguous traits we call middle eastern.". In the survey I conducted , I asked "Do you believe Arabs have a higher probability of being terrorists?" (Appendix A). Fifty% have responded no, 20% responded yes, and 30% have responded neutr

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