On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He proclaimed his vision of a United States in which whites and blacks were treated equally. The citizens of the United States have elected a black president, but the nation still has a long way to go. Racial profiling is a problem that affects many minority groups. I will never forget when a security officer accused me of trying to steal a bag. Just because I'm an African American woman doesn't mean I can't afford to buy a travel bag. I felt inclined to explore this issue after my experience because I never want my child to suffer the humiliation of being followed while shopping and accused of shoplifting. Racial Profiling It is essential that Congress pass the End Racial Profiling Act to minimize the negative effects of racial profiling in the United States because racial profiling is morally wrong and the law is critical to provide legal protection to law and political science professors of the University of Chicago Bernard E. Harcourt warned that “the underlying premises and basic mathematical assumptions are flawed” and contribute to the misleading use of racial profiling (Kowalski). The use of misleading statistical discrimination prevents the United States from making progress in minimizing the effects of racial profiling. Racial profiling has been shown to be an ineffective method of catching criminals. University of Toledo College law professor David A. Harris examined the ineffectiveness of racial profiling. Harris analyzed arrest statistics from the New York Attorney General's office and found that “more blacks than whites were stopped and searched for concealed weapons” (Kowalski). However, “the arrest rate of whites for violations was actually higher” (Kowalski). This evidence demonstrates that racial profiling is ineffective and demonstrates that just because a person is African American does not mean they have committed a