Editing Driving while black (section)

{{short description|Racial profiling of African American drivers}}
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"'''Driving while black'''" ('''DWB''') is a [[Sardonicism|sardonic]] description of [[racial profiling]] of [[African Americans|African-American]] motor vehicle drivers. It implies that a [[driving|motorist]] may be [[traffic stop|stopped by a police officer]] largely because of [[Racism|racial bias]] rather than any apparent violation of traffic law.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=Harris|first=D.|date=1999|url=http://academic.udayton.edu/race/03justice/dwb01.htm|title=The stories, the statistics, and the law: Why 'Driving While Black' matters|work=84 Minnesota Law Review|pages=265–326|access-date=May 7, 2007|archive-date=May 15, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515053141/http://academic.udayton.edu/race/03justice/dwb01.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/10/23/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-black-man|title=Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man|last=Gates|first=Henry L.|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2017-03-14}}</ref> It is a [[word play]] on the phrase "[[driving while intoxicated]]".