Diesel_dyk wrote:
Its one thing to say look out there is a suspect and race is given as a part of that description, that's just common sense. This isn't racial profiling.
Its completely different to say terrorists are middle eastern and therefore we must screen all middle eastern people more closely. or cops pulling over low riders or blacks in Cadillacs etc etc... that's racial profiling and its wrong to permit cops to make assumptions from visual inspections from afar.... "hey that's a black guy, I bet he's got pot or crack or something" or "this is a "white" neighborhood what's this black guy doing here. That type of racial profiling is never good enough to justify stopping a person. You need more, perhaps gang activity, terrorist activity or like "gasp" actual criminal activity.
Its obvious that the US has a racism problem. Its obvious that racist attitudes are engrained. Its good that the old generation with their backward racist views and anti-American attitudes are dieing off. But when people post things about minorities getting upset about cops stopping them, like the Harvard professor case, and say crap like well they just should have cooperated and said nothing to the cop... well if nothing is said then nothing is going to change until.... The people need to speak up.
People questioning cops when they are stopped due to racial profiling is the same as Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat up on the bus. In the eyes of some people these agitators are considered criminals.... I'd call these agitators true Americans.
Nothing wrong with looking at people from countries that frequent places you are at war with.
Why can't a cop pull over a low rider, or a black cadillac, are low riders and black cadillacs races all of a sudden?
It is obvious that the US has a racism problem, and people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Barrack Obama, and Henry Lewis Gates are the tip of the spear regarding it.
Gates is a racist of the gild you disdain. the cop, evidence CLEARLY shows, was right, and committed no acts of racism. Neither did the concerned citizen. Racism was in the heart of Gates and all who AUTOMATICALLY supported him, without contemplating the fact that he could be in the wrong, NOT to even the mention those that STILL refuse to acknowledge he is a racist, but contend the cop is, now that all the facts of the matter are out.