“One, did he run from the cop? Two, shooting people ISN’T racial profiling. Its murder…same with violent rioting.”
I think he did run from the cop. However, the cop had no right to fire since his life was not place in unnecessary danger (the teenager was unarmed). This more has to due with police misconduct or maybe even racism, not racial profiling as you said. What I was referring to was the backlash. IE Blacks pulling whites out of cars, beating them, and saying, “Now you know how it feels to be a victim of racial profiling.” This has to stop. How long can you molest a race of people so much that they finally snap, like the incident from above?
“This almost happened to my dad! They put him on the plane first so people wouldn’t “vote him off.”!!! If someone is checked out by security, then noone should be “voted off.” That isn’t racial profiling.”
The Arab wasn’t voted off, it was all due to the actions of one single passenger. This still is “hard” profiling* by that passenger (This event happen fairly recently, I think in early June. The attacks of Sept. 11th came almost 8 months ago!). But still, the he [the Arab] had to be stripped searched and forego questioning (the whole ordeal delayed the flight at least an hour). Don’t you think that this is a little extreme to say the least? If this Arab were a citizen of the United States (and he was), I would think a simple baggage check, background check, and sincere apology would be more than enough. Same with blacks. Should a person pulled over for a minor traffic violation (and we see this all the time) be subject to unwanted scrutiny (ie having his car searched and even taken into custody) simply because of the color of his skin?
“You agree with me so why are we debating? What we need is the Israeli like system. If someone was here for generations, or comes here all the time on business, should geta backroundcheck (like everyone), and notneed to be heavily scrutinized again! Its a great system.”
The problem is that such a system doesn’t exist in America. Now I would support your Israeli system. However, it should not just be applied to blacks (when driving cars) or Arabs (when riding airplanes). This should be similar to the National Instant Check (as a member of the NRA you should know this). Instant Checks require only a few minutes, and they are the most comprehensive checks ever run on firearm purchasers, superior to any conducted under waiting periods.
- = What we may call “hard” profiling uses race as the only factor in assessing criminal suspiciousness: an officer sees a black person and, without more to go on, pulls him over for a pat-down on the chance that he may be carrying drugs or weapons. “Soft” racial profiling is using race as one factor among others in gauging criminal suspiciousness: the highway police, for example, have intelligence that Jamaican drug posses with a fondness for Nissan Pathfinders are transporting marijuana along a section of the northeast corridor. A New Jersey trooper sees a black motorist speeding in a Pathfinder and pulls him over in the hope of finding drugs.
