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Originally posted by sprocket
If you are a white male, try growing out your hair and driving a volkswagon beetle.. see how often you get pulled over. You will get pulled.. A LOT.. simply for your appearance. Cops pull over people who they think look like criminals. I seriously doubt a black man dressed like your usual suburban caucasion dork is going to get pulled more frequently than your usual caucasion suburban dork.
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Are you claiming that white privilege doesn't exist? That's not even a good comparison. The point is many black people don't have to go out of their way to look suspicious in the eye of your average racial profiler. The average cop may be right when he assumes that the average hippy looking fella probably has drugs on him. Unfortunatly there has been at least one study that i'm aware of that found that the police are more likely to pull over nonwhites than whites. How would you feel if it was fairly normal for your average white person between the ages of 16 and, say, 60 to get pulled over simply because they "fit the description" or "looked suspicious"? Does that sound good to you?
I'm not trying to claim that all cops are bigots. I'm just trying to point out just one of the ways that white people have been reaping the benefits of unofficial aa for a long time.