My nomination for "Bull of the Week Award":
It seems that what we always knew was true is true. Big surprise, eh? But the tide is turning. One more racist nail being pulled from the coffin of Justice ... she's not dead yet!
I would ask that anyone who considers having an opinion on racial profiling consider it in terms of the effect of imprisoning someone, and how that person fares in the outside world. This is another piece in the puzzle of how it got to be a surrogate race-war, and why the Drug War needs to end.
Point out any individual officer and tell me that it's not his fault that this goes on in the country. I agree. But tomorrow is a new day, and by then there's no excuse for this kind of crap. You put on your uniform, and know that you're targeting people based on their skin color: Resign or admit you're a racist. But don't demand respect because of the badge.
Anyone wonder why there exists a functional relationship between darkness of one's skin and the probability that they'll get busted? Because the cops aren't looking at anyone else!
Combine racial profiling with felony disenfranchisement, and ask yourself if it's right that in as many as 7 states, 40% of voting-age black males are ineligible to vote in any election for the rest of their lives.
I wish I could feel smug about tragedy. Okay, sometimes I can. But not today.
We, the drug-using People of the United States of America, told you so!
How long do you want to waste your tax money on this?
thanx,
Tiassa
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.--Denis Diderot
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/#njprofilingIn a statement released Monday, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman said, "While racial profiling did not begin in this state or under this administration, history will show that the end of racial profiling in America did indeed begin in New Jersey and under this administration."
It seems that what we always knew was true is true. Big surprise, eh? But the tide is turning. One more racist nail being pulled from the coffin of Justice ... she's not dead yet!
I would ask that anyone who considers having an opinion on racial profiling consider it in terms of the effect of imprisoning someone, and how that person fares in the outside world. This is another piece in the puzzle of how it got to be a surrogate race-war, and why the Drug War needs to end.
Point out any individual officer and tell me that it's not his fault that this goes on in the country. I agree. But tomorrow is a new day, and by then there's no excuse for this kind of crap. You put on your uniform, and know that you're targeting people based on their skin color: Resign or admit you're a racist. But don't demand respect because of the badge.
Anyone wonder why there exists a functional relationship between darkness of one's skin and the probability that they'll get busted? Because the cops aren't looking at anyone else!
Combine racial profiling with felony disenfranchisement, and ask yourself if it's right that in as many as 7 states, 40% of voting-age black males are ineligible to vote in any election for the rest of their lives.
I wish I could feel smug about tragedy. Okay, sometimes I can. But not today.
We, the drug-using People of the United States of America, told you so!
How long do you want to waste your tax money on this?
thanx,
Tiassa
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.--Denis Diderot