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Originally Posted by blueash
Given your ridiculous scenario, I totally blame the cop. Here is a law abiding citizen who is mistreated by someone who is sworn to protect him because he can't see beyond skin color. Then give up your badge and become a commenter on TOTV. The cop is given special rights and special protection and special treatment and special honors and is still a racist in your scenario.
All of you who say this is just fine, it is human nature are exactly the same people who claim there is not such thing as white privilege. Yet you are presented a simple clear example of white privilege and defend it, even think it is completely reasonable. After all, those blacks are criminals and thugs and rapists and murderers and druggies and so they and anyone who shares their skin color deserves what they get.
Even if the driver in your little thought experiment is a former convicted felon he deserves to be treated with respect and exactly the same as any lily white driver unless he is at the time he is stopped committing a crime. Period.
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Why do you think the Cop is a 'racist'? Is it because he was raised by racists who instilled that mode of thinking or is it possible because he has witness the actions and behavior or most blacks and formed a racial bias? When I was younger and had long hair and rode a motorcycle I was often stopped by police and treated in a harsh manner much differently that I was later in life or today. I think its human nature to react to what we've be taught or leaned to expect in any given situtation.