Blacks have been used as slaves over the decades and made to believe that they are subordinate to whites. Blacks could not do the same as whites until Congress passed equality rights. Blacks wanted to be recognized as human beings and not animals. Many different forms of discrimination are used against blacks. People might be prejudiced and overly prejudiced, meaning that a person might simply not like you because they dislike your race. Stereotyping can be used to attribute the same characteristics to all members of a group, regardless of individual differences. Stereotypes are often based on misconceptions, incomplete information, and/or false generalizations. In most cases, stereotypes presuppose negative characteristics of a group. Racial profiling is a form of stereotyping. This means that the police and government base specific crimes on specific races, rather than on reasonable suspicion or evidence, to single out an individual for greater scrutiny for his or her different characteristics. These forms of racism made black people feel worthless in a white person