re: LSU students having a rally to support Mizzou

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to continue the discussion of racial tension in the college setting

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Well how about including ALL races in that discussion, and ALL genders, and ALL backgrounds.

I dont get why its always black vs. white. There are tons of other races that Im sure would have a gripe as well.

Why aren't they picketing?

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While at LSU I experienced being stopped by LSUPD while jogging around the lakes bc "a report was made of a suspicious black man running buy the sorority houses". Are these too events comparable? Not hardly...I don't know if white students were frequently stopped on campus and asked to see their student ID to verify they went there but I know I was.

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If you're not doing anything wrong, then why is it a big deal?


There are lots of similar cases of profiling that are based on LOTS of different things.


For example, I ALWAYS get carded any time I go anywhere because of how young I look, and there are even times where I have been given jUNIOR discounts on things.

Or people will even talk to me like I'm much younger, and it comes across very wrong.

Its the EXACT same thing.

Some people might get eyed by police just because they have tattoos, or because they wear certain clothes REGARDLESS of race. You know this to be true.

How do you stereotype a girl who wears really skanky clothes? Do you assume she's DTF? I bet you do in some respects. If she's not at all, then that could be considered REALLY offensive.

The point is, people NEED to make baseline judgments from which to operate, and while they may not always be favorable to everyone, they CAN be changed easily.

It becomes an issue when the baseline judgment is not being changed DESPITE persistent contradictory experiences.

Was your ID checked more than once? Maybe its a product of what THAT guy did. It wasn't about YOU being black, it was because HE (the possible perpetrator) that you were checked.

In fact, you could have seen that as a great positive because you proved the police wrong, that a black man is in fact just innocently running around the track. Wouldn't you want to be that guy to break the stereotype? Dont you think after the police stop enough innocent black men that they would eventually stop assuming time and time again that they have cause to be suspicious?

Sure as shite bet they would. What a stupid waste of resources if they didn't change their approach.

Just like middle easterners. They hate being stereotyped at airports and such, but its because of someone else that they're being stereotyped. Eventually, after enough checks, and enough of nothing is documented, they will stop using their time and effort to profile someone based on middle eastern origin, and theyll look to something more specific.


You should be mad at the idiots who keep putting the cops under the impression that a black person is something to potentially be suspicious about given certain circumstances.

I would give no fricks if they stopped me. They could check and see that Im one less person for them to worry about. You certainly did the same, so be glad you helped chip away at a stereotype.