12-02-2014, 02:44 PM
(12-02-2014, 02:27 PM)username Wrote: I have conversations in my head about it all the time. There's the voice, when I'm at the airport that says "look, a towel head...terrorist"! Then the other voice says "Sue, just because he has a towel on his head does NOT mean he's a terrorist". We usually go back and forth for awhile but the rational side usually wins.
I honestly don't know how you "end" racial profiling. I can only imagine it would involve extensive community level studies. Town X is 50% white, 50% people of color. The police of Town X pull over or question people of color at a rate of 10 to every 1 white person. Disproportionate. However, people of color in Town X are convicted of 80% of the town's felonies....
It's a good thing I'm not a mathematician/statistician. I wouldn't know what the fuck to do with that kind of information.
That's exactly what goes through my mind at the airport too, and will hopefully not happen to me next Monday!
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