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I think most of the profiling being done is more than the color of skin, but also the "uniform" we wear. When I was a teenager, I was into punk rock. I looked very much the part, yet I was offended when people looked at me weird or were scared of me. Once I became older (and somewhat wiser), I saw that I wanted to look like a weirdo, but not treated like one. Nowadays, the gangster look and jailhouse look (the low-riding baggy pants that inmates made fashionable) are common-place. Kids want to look like gangsters, but they don't want to be treated like one. Therein lies the problem. Can people be faulted for seeing someone who looks like a gangster and then treat them like one? White kids who dress like gangsters are just laughed at because everyone knows they aren't (they are just wannabees). But, when someone sees a hispanic or a black kid dressed that way - the probabilities are increased, that they may be an actual gangster. It is a form of discrimination, but it is also, very much, self-preservation. We all engage in some sort of decision process that involves probabilities based on various factors. Age, color, dress/appearance, demeanor are all valid forms of this. They can rail against this and call it racism (from the security of their penthouses, mansions, and gated communities), but we will always do it - everyone will despite our color or ethnicity.
I was going to comment, but I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. Well said.
Well of course. I work in a white working class section of Baltimore. Sometimes on a nice day I'll walk from my office to the Subway. About a week ago, three white guys in "street" attire walked up behind me. They smelled of weed and their conversation led me to believe they weren't up to any good. I let them pass me, I wasn't about to have my back to them.
If you just take race into account than you're profiling wrong, you have to factor in clothes, language etc.
A weedhead attack someone? Thats funny since most of the time they can't remember what they were going to do
You know in the end it is the extent of the profiling. I think people have a problem when your profiling ends at say black male. If you were profile young black male with gang affiliated tatoos. That's is different. Some people can't see that.
Profiling is supposed to be this big bad evil racist thing yet Blacks do it too evidently. My father was a cab driver in DC and after having a gun put to his head by young black males he refused to pick them up.
I couldn't have guessed from more than half the threads you create about black people.
EdwardA would discriminate against himself if he could since he is what he despises.
So from ALL of his anti-Black comments, one must assume that if the police beat him down Rodney King style, EdwardA would send them Thank You flowers for a job well done.
Exactly. I'm a big fan of making eye contact with people. When I find myself in not-so-appealing environments......whether here in the US or abroad......my instinct is to have a swivel neck and make strong eye contact with people I encounter. If they know i've located and identified them, the chances of that person doing something of ill-intent are decreased. I'm sure it doesn't hurt that i'm 6'3"+ and 200lbs.
Curious,but doesn't eye contact signal that you want a confrontation with them?
I was told by a crime prevention officer that you don't look people in the eye because the eyes show fear.
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