Racial profiling

Super original thread, boss.

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If they look like a "THUG" and act like a "THUG" and approach you like a "THUG", they are a "THUG"!

See I just profiled a "THUG"!

Thugs are dying in the Baton Rouge streets seems like everyday! Killed by other Thugs!

Exactly. I don't think it's about the color of your skin as much as it is the way you present yourself. White thugs and black thugs will always be looked at differently, as they should be!

It doesn't sound like you know what racial profiling is.

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Super original thread, boss.

:blackobsessed:

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I love you OMMG. But, there is no reason to get upset over this thread.

This is an uncomfortable bed of "our" own making.




To answer the OP:

If your wife (mother, sister, GF?) sees me walking toward her as darkness is falling and locks her car door...she is being unnecessarily, but REASONABLY, cautious.

If she sees me walking toward her and she locks the door to her diner...she is a racist bitch.


If she tells a neeger joke at her Bunko hen party...she is just telling a joke.

If she, as a loan officer, denies me a loan that I am otherwise qualified for on the assumption that I am risky because of race....she is a racist bitch.



I understand that I may be watched a bit more closely in an expensive store. But, so long as I am not prohibited from shopping...its cool.


I try as hard as possible to demonstrate understanding and proper behavior in hopes that it will simply chip a tiny piece off of the boulder of racial profiling suspicion. Its a MUCH easier "burden" than my forebears toiled beneath.


That a loud group has created doubt is not MY fault....but, it is not exactly YOUR fault either.

My dad has seen progress. I've seen progress. Maybe a generation or two from now will read these threads and wonder what it was like in those "awful times".

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Ehh I agree with the rest of your post, but can't say I agree with this part. I'm not cool with being followed in a store because I'm black.

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You miss an opportunity to have fun.

Pick up an item, stuff it in your pockets while looking around furtively.

Stick a tee shirt under your own shirt and flatten it down...


Then start looking round again....and walk to the register, pull everything out and pay for it

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Whites outnumber blacks 5:1, but according to the US Department of Justice, blacks accounted for 52.5% of homicide offenders from 1980 to 2008, with whites 45.3% and Native Americans and Asians 2.2%. The offending rate for blacks was almost 8 times higher than whites, and the victim rate 6 times higher.

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racist cops and prosecutors. Case closed. next?

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Is racial profiling "racist", unfair, or good police work?

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It depends.

Were the police being racist and/or unfair when they detained me while I was walking down the street minding my own business because I fit the description of someone who just committed murder?

Were the police being racist and/or unfair when they detained me while I was walking down the street minding my own business because I fit the description of someone who just robbed a bank around the corner?

If I was black it would probably be considered racist and unfair but because I am white it would probably be considered good police work.

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... and illegally profiling someone and denying their rights.

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That's not illegally profiling someone. That's illegally discriminating against someone.