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Originally Posted by GMScud
Let's be careful here people. I know we have a large number of members here who are both black and white. Please read your responses before you hit "post," and let's make sure we're not offending anyone. Remember the motto of this forum- for the INTELLIGENT fans. Let's act as such.
Discussions of race are delicate, and the language and verbage we use needs to follow suit.
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My point was not to sound racist or ruffle any feathers. My point was that, it sounded like people were complaining that the "cops" were profiling and in this case that would be wrong. Even in the beginning of my comment you would notice I said I was not singling out Schneed10 because I was not sure if his comment was saying the cops were profiling or the neighbor, but that in this case the cops did not profile.
With the other comments made I was simply asking that if a call goes out to the police that there is suspicous activity and after arriving, what are they supposed to do if they have been called out there?
I'll be the first to agree African Americans or minorities in general, a lot of the time are not treated fairly. I would be ignorant to say "no there is no such thing as profiling." But in this case it's hard to tell if the "neighbor" was profiling or not. We don't have their side of the story. What if the neighbor was African American also?
People here were quick to jump on the foot ball players inuendo that he was being singled out because he was "black and rich." In other words it's the cops or a neighbor who were being racist and profiling. and all I'm trying to point out is the cops were doing their jobs. They were called there. Someone reported suspicous activity and we don't know exactly what activity was going on. I would like to think any and all of us would call the cops if we saw "anyone" who had suspicous activity and that does not constitute anyone being racist or profiling.