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Originally Posted by timalkin
After the identification was given, the good professor decided to talk shit to the police while he was outside of his house, presumably calling the police officers racists and generally creating a nuisance. News flash: You talk shit to the police at your own risk. You don't have a constitutional right to say whatever the fuck you're thinking to the police, or anybody else for that matter. Don't like it? Tough shit.
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You're inventing things, projecting your bias into the story. Notice how "presumably" made it's way into your recounting. You presume too much. Newsflash, the police had no reason to be there. They came to the home just to double-check, to ensure nothing funny was going on. They showed up based on the claims of a neighbor that couldn't even recognize someone that lived within visual distance of her home. That's flimsy to begin with. That they stuck around after determining that the man was breaking in to
his own home, speaks in volumes. The police are not all-powerful, they do not have permission to go wherever they want for whatever reason they deem appropriate. The fact remains that as soon as the identity of the professor was verified, there was no longer any evidence of a crime. The police were to leave. To paraphrase you, if the police wanted to stick around, tough shit.
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Originally Posted by timalkin
Will, you've got it all wrong (surprised). My problem is that I fucking hate double standards, of any kind. I don't give a fuck about race, except when it's used as a weapon against people who are simply doing their job or generally have good intentions. Most double standards can be recognized by just about anybody with a little intellectual honesty, except when it comes to race. White apologists are just as much to blame for the double standard as black racists. Think about it.
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You've taken apologism in the other direction. You're offended by the fact that truly the black people in America had it very bad for a very long time, and that many still have it bad for no other reason than their skin color, the genesis of what you call apologism. Instead of feeling sympathy, you
covet their victim status. You want that attention, you want what you perceive to be that power. You want to the white Jesse Jackson, to (as you see it) take advantage of your race's position having been victimized for so long. Look at your own take: the victims are the police officers that went to investigate a man that was breaking into his own home, that stuck around after realizing the mistake. The aggressor is the black man, racially profiled by his neighbor that never took the time to recognize him, a man that happens to be an "academic", a man that happened to be angered by the very real bias that lead to the police showing up at his home.
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Originally Posted by timalkin
I don't read any posts by roachboy. He either can't believe that he's wasting his time by posting in a thread, or he sounds like a professor who has spent his entire life in academia, with no real world experience, i.e. $100 words to describe a $5 concept.
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It always fascinates me that people that hate college seem to think they know everything about it's people.