Who is that? By the way I don't listen to any of the talking heads other than flipping through the news channels. I don't need them to tell me what's happening in the real world, I live in it.
and another thing, i work in staffing, thats what i do all day long is hire people for companies all over louisiana, and if you think for a second that alot of these companies dont discriminate due to race then maybe you need to check that "real world" you live in.
no, but we do not have the job they do (or most of us at least) and do not see the stress they are under to sort things out. and that if they dont assess a situation properly, it could mean the difference between dealing with an innocent bystander, or dealing with someone who is gonna pull a gun on em. and yes, there are cops out there with an attitude. while i know this is not the same type situation, i have been pulled over twice in the past year. the first time, the state trooper was polite, respectful, and doing his job. i think the thought i was crazy, but he was still very much a gentleman and patient with me. and i did what he asked, was polite, and saw it as only doing his job. the second state trooper was a prick. while he tried to use polite words, he had an attitude, the swagger, and was less than pleasant to deal with. but i did what he asked, was polite, and saw it as doing his job. he did nothing that violated my rights so i had no reason to be indignant. i accepted that he was doing his job (albiet, with an attitude) and went on about my day. not too happily, but i did. the bottom line is that in asking for identification and trying to sort out a situation, the cop had no way of knowing if gates was legally in the house, or someone that was gonna pull a gun on him. all indications are is that is all the cop was initially trying to do. if gates had cooperated and looked at the other point of view for just a minute, just as he wants others to look at his, he would have realized the cop was only doing his job. he seems to be asking for something is was unwilling to give himself at the time. in this case, imo, the cop did nothing in the initial encounter that showed he was not using "good judgement and level headiness". gates did. and that is why it escalated.
i completely agree with you. gates used poor judgement and jumped to conclusions. i still think the cop could have handled it a whole hell of alot better than he did.
presumably you realize that affirmative action is a massive and explicit contradiction to your idea that people should get over it and just live together. affirmative action is condescending to black folks, and it angers whites and makes them hate blacks. it makes things much much worse. how is your heritage something to be proud of? i was born into something, i had nothing to do with it. people should stop beng proud (or ashamed) of what they were born into. again, people are individuals.
let me ask this question.... back in the early days of punk rock, punkers were viewed by cops and "adults" (for lack of a better term) as drug addicted thugs, probably carrying weapons and willing to wreck havoc on society. those with "the look" (colored hair, wearing leather, etc.) were profiled as hoodlums and law breakers. when many were just into the music, doing nothing illegal, and not out to break the law. how was that type of profiling of young white adults different than profiling of young black men? that is not being snarky, that is a legitimate question of profiling on perception. and most often the wrong perception, imo.
No, because apparently they are not happy with what they have now and still believe that the whole world is against them. It has paid off, especially those that lead the charge in brain washing the masses and insuring that racism never dies. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Farrakhan would be penniless and powerless if racism didn't exist. They no more want racism to end than does the KKK. As long as they keep pouring the koolaid and the brainwashed and misguided line up to drink, racism will live and prosper.
no different, i agree with you, i was a skater and i got messed with by the cops every chance they got, searched for drugs, (luckily i was smart enough not to carry them with me) but you are pretty much on point.
Wrong, buddy. I almost gave up on my chosen profession after I got sick of finding job openings that included the phrase,"women and minorities encouraged to apply." Translation: we're not hiring a white guy. I got that constantly when I was trying to break into the industry. The last time I applied for a job, I was blatantly told, "we want a woman in the position." The quotes I just used aren't for effect; that was the guy's exact words. I was vastly more qualified than the woman who got the job. We all know what would happen if someone tried to pull that shyt on a black job applicant.
