[quote=SK in CV] It happens every day in this country, probably thousands of times. Black men are stopped by police and others under the color of authority solely because they are black. Purses get clutched a little tighter, car doors get locked when a black man walks by. It happens in Florida, it happens in NYC, it happens in Carmel Valley. It’s overt racism, and it’s demeaning, demoralizing and insulting.[/quote]
SK, let’s say you live in a country where 99.9% of the people are race A and 0.1% are race B. And 99.9% of the criminals are race B and 0.1% are race A. And you live in a part of town where there are a hundred thousand residents, but there aren’t more than 2 or 3 residents who are of race B. You’re watching your children play in the culdesac where you live from the upstairs window of your house. A man of race B walks into the culdesac. Are you more anxious about that than if a man of race A walks into the culdesac?
If so, according to your post above, then you’re an “overt” racist. Because the only difference between the hypothetical world above and our world is the size of the numbers.
If not, then you are, I would venture to say, lacking common sense.
I agree with CA Renter and Martin Luther King and all the others who say that if black people want to stop being profiled, they should stop committing crimes at the rate they do.
