It’s a sad fact, but racism still exists in this country. Obama is trying to compound that factor and increase it, but it exists, none the less. Now, I have no idea whether or not that was a factor in this case, but there’s a large section of society that questions why a person of such and such race is in a place they “don’t belong.”
(Note, I don’t mean that the original poster to whom you replied has that mentality, there’s no evidence of that, but if they got their facts from someone that did, it would add to the perception that he shouldn’t have been there then. I myself have been unduly questioned about why I was walking through a neighborhood because I didn’t fit the color scheme—by more than one ethnic group—idiocy is not color specific and exists everywhere.)
Especially if they dress themselves up like a thug.
>It’s a sad fact, but racism still exists in this country.<
It will NEVER go away. In L.A.: whites don’t hang with hispanics, hispanics don’t hang with anyone, Asians don;t hang with anyone. I know, I work and live here.
That’s how it’s been, regardless of those white liberals who push multiculturalism. They themselves do not have any non-white friends.
“...but there’s a large section of society that questions why a person of such and such race is in a place they “don’t belong.”
And a lot of those people come to the kneejerk reaction that this is racism.
If an unfamiliar face is seen in a neighborhood, a kid in a hoodie, white or black or whatever, by a neighborhood watch captain whose job it is to look out for suspicious strangers, then obviously that kid is going to arouse suspicion.
And couple that with a gangsta culture which celebrates lawlessness and the thug life, one would have to be an IDIOT not to be suspicious.
Let’s not be naive here, and act like it’s our first day on the planet.