The greatest joy in the world is forcing an officer to prove he has probable cause, get a warrant, or get a K-9 unit, and giving him the general idea that I have something on me. Make the pig go through all that work and he ends up with nothing. That'll teach them to go after real criminals rather than targeting urban youths.
I got news for you. Urban youths make up most of the murder victims due to gangs or just plain old crime. Urban youths are more likely to be involved in crime for a number of reasons. My friend is a NYC cop. He has encountered more minorities involved in crime than your typical caucasion male. Of course white men committ crimes too but it is higher with the minority population, again for numerous factors. Something about immulating rappers, gang life and having sex at an early age creating fatherless children and creating a cycle of young males with contempt and hate in their heart.
That is why I want to be a teacher in NYC, to help combat that as a teacher.
I'm assuming you're white. I guarantee a routine traffic stop for you is not the same as it is for me, being a visible minority. I have yet to run into respectable pigs that deserve my respect. Until then, I'll continue refusing random searches, waiting for a representative, and being a general asshole to them when I know I have done nothing wrong.
You have not been the first to make that mistake
. I am an educated minority. You couldnt tell that from the political threads, my republican oriented sig and my religious views. I am 25% Jamaican, 25% Dominican and 50% Puerto Rican.
I dress in urban clothing, rap/hip-hop clothes and look much like a typical Puerto Rican or minority. Unlike other minorites, I dont blame the actions of a cop that is trying to combat crime against them. I too have been watched closely in some nice stores and have experienced racial profiling once. Some store clerc assumed I stole a magazine when I left the store but hadn't noticed that I came in with it.
Should I blame her for her actions? Hold that contempt against a race? No. I simply shrug it off and realize that the real harm is coming from my own people committing these crimes and justifying it as "do what you gotta do to survive son".
Instead of blaming the cops, why not blame the teens having babies, the people that sell drugs in the neigborhood and justify that as "I'm just tryin to eat and get this paper". Why not blame the mentality of urban youth that the only way to success is with basketball/sports skills or a career in rap/hip-hop music? Why not blame those same african-americans for dismissing Bryant Gumble and Colin Powell as "too white" or "uncle toms" instead of good role models for the black community? Bill Cosby has been speaking about this recentley but if it came from a white person then it is racism.
Minorities need to wake-up. There is no longer chaines around a black man's ankles and there is no white man in their way to success. The obsticle is the stigma they hold in their minds, their own shackles and chains that prevents them from succeding.
///M, you give me an example of a situation a cop or "pig" offended you by racially profilling you or falsely accusing you of a crime and Ill tell you how I handle such situations, the right way to handle them.