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Isabel Lieb, Honorable Mention Grade 8, Gary Schwingle/Jeff Bibeau Roseville Area Middle School Race, Homosexuality, and Immigrants Article one of the JLm �ypj�Ll DUIaTafion P-Mman Rights states that you should have the Tight to equality. Yet in the United States, one. of the founding countries of the United Nations, you can still get stopped by the police because of your race, and denied housing, healthcare or an education because of YOUX sexual orientation or your national migin.. There is never a reason to violate someone else's human rights, so why do things like this happen? Many ignorant people think all blacks are criminals, and unfortanately some segments of our society have acted on 'that stereotype. Adcordm'g to a 2003 University of Minnesota report to the state legislature, blacks are more likely to be stopped for racial profiling, which means a police officer can pull you over because you have the saine race as the person they this committed a crime, And in states with the death penalty, if the victim is white, black defendants are three times more likely to be put to death fhan if the defendant is white. The M 11-n-&&Qla.,H m . Righ--tspct should protect blacks from this but it still happens. Stereotypes may be harmless if you never act upon them, but when you do they can create racial discrimination which violates article two 'of the Univer al Dgcil.ara 011 of -ul J all R 1 P-rhts. Many people believe in harmful stereotypes about homosexuals, For example, they might believe gay men carry diseases or that homosexuals are nefarious. Because of these stereotypes, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will not allow blood banks to accept any blood from gay men, even though most medical experts are open to it. Sometimes people don 't want to house homosexuals thinking that it would be Knmoral and disgusting, which would IMP ly homosexuals are below humans -- like pets banned from apartments. But homosexuals are entitled to their n*gllt for