I'm with Chels ... I believe Obama wrote a speech that was needed. I was responding to someone calling the speech crap because there's no question that some of it was political rhetoric. However, to me, the majority of what he said were things that needed to be said, that should have been said many years ago.

There is no question that some people scream police brutality for no reason other than to make some money. There is no question that police officers get killed in the line of duty -- sometimes by young, white men; sometimes (more often, actually) by young, black men. Maybe if people would be more willing to accept others for how they act rather than their religion, the color of their skin, their political beliefs, etc. there would be less incidents on either side. I'm hoping that by the time any future great-grandchildren of mine come around, that there will be more acceptance, less anger, hate and fear. I truly don't believe it will happen in my daughter's time or in the time of her children.

As to when I was stopped, sorry, don't buy it. This was not a "routine" stop. There was absolutely no reason to stop me other than the fact that I was a white female with a rather large black man sitting in the passenger side. Had I been speeding or doing anything even remotely illegal, I would have no objection to being pulled over with or without my friend in the car. The fact remains I was doing nothing wrong and even the officer admitted this when he pulled me over. He admitted that he pulled me over because my car was "questionable." I don't care how you look at it, it sounds like racial profiling to me and it stinks.