Colin Powell: I’ve Been Victim of Racial Profiling ‘Many Times’ (video)

CNN ^ | July 28, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

"I got mad when I, as a national security adviser to the president of the United States, I went down to meet somebody at Reagan National Airport and nobody recognized -- nobody thought I could possibly be the national security adviser to the president.

I was just a black guy at Reagan National Airport. And it was only when I went up to the counter and said, 'Is my guest here who's waiting for me?' did somebody say, 'Oh, you're General Powell.'

It was inconceivable to him that a black guy could be the national security adviser."

[Texas Eagle]

"I got mad when I, as a national security adviser to the president of the United States, I went down to meet somebody at Reagan National Airport and nobody recognized -- nobody thought I could possibly be the national security adviser to the president.

Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa!!!!

Stop it! You're killing me!!!

[advance_copy]

Powell: Pre-Ma-Donna!

[Richard Kimball]

I still find it hard to believe. It’s like finding out Tom Cruise is a professional football player.

[Paved Paradise]

You know what’s so funny? When we white people aren’t recognized for our importance, we have nothing to blame.

[american_ranger]

Don’t you know who I am?

I’m importent.

Oops, I meant impotent.

[headstamp 2]

Methinks Colin is becoming a head case. He’s turning into Al Sharpton.

[Libertarian444]

[digger48]

ooooh... that musta left a scar. Sounds a little like another case of the same “Don’t You Know Who I Am” syndrome, than it was racism.

makes me want to wash my mouth out for ever supporting this guy. Shoulda known.

[american_ranger]

So what if I ignore spell chek?

[manc]

yes I agree he was looked at his color, he got a job because of it did he not.

Like so many other folks who got a job based on color and voted because of color.

Martin Luther King said he had a dream that this nation would be a color blind one.

Well the left have certainly forgot that dream of his.
Instead they look at color all the time.
they go on about diversity,look at color
they go on about affirmative action , again based on color
they put folks into groups, based on color and religion.

It is high time the left stops with their open racism and stop splitting folks up.

we will never be Americans as one if the left gets their way

I have a dream
one day we will get jobs based on grades not color
we will be all one not based in groups based on color
we will live where we want and go to school with who we want not based on color or religion

I want a color blind country too, no wonder MLK was a republican he saw how the left destroys people and judges them based on color

[Kieri]

So he’s whining because he restrained himself by NOT sticking his chest out and asking, “do you know who I am”???

Somebody’s used to being fawned over. Sounds like a typical politican and this one’s trying to move in on Gates’ racial turf.

[P-Marlowe]

If you don't recognize a famous black man, then you are a racist.

White people must be fully educated about which black people are important, so that when we see them at the airport (or at the whorehouse), we can give them (as Ray Barboni would say) "the proper fu--ing respect".

[bigbob]

Is RINO a race?

[fso301]

When compared with other cars I’ve owned, I once had an old clunker and noticed when driving it that police liked to pull me over to let me know a headlight was misaligned or that I seemed to take a turn a bit too wide.

[jazusamo]

CP needs to retire...for good!

[43north]

Well colin, you have also been a “victim” of affirmative action which is the only way a yokel like you could get to where you are.

[Jeff Head]

Yea, like when you became a General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Secretary of State. All of those times.

But never fear....help is on the way.

THE KODIAK WING OF THE GOP

[stevio]

Come on, where are those FReepers that wanted him to be Prez?

[DoughtyOne]

Lately it seems Powell and McCain are trying to outdo the other with self-destructive moronic public comments.

I’ve never had much use for McCain, but I have hated to see Powell screw himself into the dirt like this.

I used to respect the guy.

[Richard Kimball]

I know how to straighten em out!

[Richard Kimball]

So did I until about half way through the first time I heard him speak.

[mort56]

Elitist alert!

[Larry381]

Cue the violins

[manc]

if you get pulled by a black cop can the white guy shout racism too or this just a one way thing?

Son you can't have that job it is going to that guy because he is black

but but but, I got all A's he got a D

yea so he is black now shut up you can't have that job-——————————————————————————

Son you can have that job based on your great grades

but but but why is he getting it I am black , so what if I got D's I am black now give me a job or I'll call bozo , jackson and sharpton and we'll cry racism He is losing it for sure, so now it is racist becasue they did not know him.

[Carley]

Little did they know how right they were. You ought not to have been the national security adviser to ANY president.

[Yaelle]

Wasn’t it 9 out of 10 people could not recognize a photo of Dick Cheney on Sean Hannity’s Man on the Street? Were those people racist?

[ColdWater]

'Is my guest here who's waiting for me?'

Uh, if he is waiting for him, then he is there.

[Canedawg]

He’s their useful idiot, and this is the week they need him to try to be useful to them, while the beer at the WH is getting cold.

Rat-jerks.

[Bob Eimiller]

Affirmative action obviously carried him to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State.

This half century long racist drumbeat is ... FINALLY beginning to fray the nerves of Middle America.

We're mad as hell and ... WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.

[Texas Eagle]

Affirmative action obviously carried him to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State.

Amen, bro.

What an ingrate.

[max americana]

I think Powell got pissed off because Gates was more racist than he was.

That’s right Colon, down with whitey!!

[Snurple]

That’s kinda hard to believe...they didn’t recognize Colin Powell?

[Texas Eagle]

Well, Mr. Chairman of the Joint Dumbasses, why don't you do what your beloved President does; take a podium with a plaque that reads, "The Seal Of The Office Of The Former National Security Adviser" on it everywhere you go so people know who you are.

Whew. That was a long sentence. I probably should've broken it up somehow.

[tioga]

this guy is NUTS! he could have been white and not recognized....what is it with these black “celebrities”? they need to get a life.

[Reagan69]

And I’ve been a victim of gender profiling many, many times. Cry me a river. Moveon.org

[OldDeckHand]

"Affirmative action obviously carried him to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State."

This is why affirmative action has to go. So long as it's the law of the land, when a person of color reaches a certain level of success, people can always wonder if they got their merely because someone was trying to satisfy a diversity goal.

I have no way of knowing if Powell rose the levels he did because of the color of his skin, but it's a legitimate question if affirmative action is legal. I do think however, he get's WAY too much credit for the first Gulf War, and he was highly overrated as SOS, IMHO.

[Texas Eagle]

"I got mad when I, as a national security adviser to the president of the United States, I went down to meet somebody at Reagan National Airport and nobody recognized -- nobody thought I could possibly be the national security adviser to the president.

Yeah? You know what they make me do at the airport? They make me take off my stinky shoes and belt and pants and shirt and underwear and throw it all in a stupid little plastic tray and feed it through some stupid x-ray machine.

Well, actually, I take my shirt and pants and underwear off voluntarily. What can I say? I just like going around naked.

[vaudine]

I know there is racist profiling, but I doubt it is as much as claimed. What are police supposed to do when 2 black bank robbers are fleeing east in a black SUV--stop every SUV, whites, Hispanic, Asian, or look for 2 black men?

What kind of profiling is it when a group of teenage girls are pulled over and have their car searched by local police (35 years ago, no probable cause). What kind of profiling is it when a highway patrolman pulls a 20 something blonde over for speeding (when she wasn't)and tries to make a date--scarey when you are in the country--what's the charge--driving while blonde?What kind of profiling is it when local police stop an out of state car--that happens in a lot of small communities, to all races, but I guarantee if it is a black, they think racism.

My point, well answered by a couple of black Cambridge police on TV today is that every incident between black and white is not racial profiling.

These problems speak to hate crime legislation--a crime is a crime and hate is involved in all crimes.It is not reserved for blacks and homosexuals. A wrongful stop is a wrongful stop, no matter the color or gender involved.

Off my soapbox for now!

vaudine

[Ghengis]

It was likely more that he was a guy at Reagan National Airport. Not "...just a black guy at Reagan National Airport."

Sorry that you didn't get your butt kissed, Colin. What a prima dona.

[Tail Gunner John]

Imagine how many lives would have been saved had we not listened to this moron during the first gulf war.

We should have never stopped on the wide open road to Baghdad. Without his touchy feely B.S. about the highway of death Saddam's regime would have fallen within a week.

[DoughtyOne]

;-)

[RJL]

I was just a black guy at Reagan National Airport. And it was only when I went up to the counter and said, 'Is my guest here who's waiting for me?' did somebody say, 'Oh, you're General Powell.'

It was inconceivable to him that a black guy could be the national security adviser."

This happens to me all the time. I'm a white guy and not once has anyone said, "Oh, you must be the national security adviser".

So I'm being racially profiled and should start whining?

[HIDEK6]

And it was only when I went up to the counter and said, 'Is my guest here who's waiting for me?'

Are airport counter people supposed to check in all the people who have been invited to Washington by black people?

[elpadre]

I am certain he had some occasions when he felt neglected or excluded.

But I suspect there are many benefits he has received over the years because of his color. I have no problem with that as long as the recipient recognizes and appreciates it. He is a good man with a good head on his shoulders and deserves to be treated with understanding and respect. But it is a two-way street.

[RetSignman]

I hate when that happens.

[Brett66]

It’s understandable, I would probably think he’s a white guy in blackface if I saw him.

[G Larry]

Hey General!
Nobody said racial profiling doesn’t exist!
We’re just making the case there is no evidence of it in the case of the chip-on-his-shoulder professor!

[sergeantdave]

Allow me to dress in my “Fine Whine” uniform.

[Islander2]

“’Is my guest here who’s waiting for me?’”

Uh, if he is waiting for him, then he is there.
You are so right on this. First of all Colon Bowel would not have gone there without an entourage and secondly because of the VIP status, those people would be USHERED to a receiving place for VIPS. I don’t buy his story at all...just another made up victimization whine.