Posted on 07/17/2013 7:35:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I hate to admit it. It’s really quite embarrassing, humiliating really. But — even though I was an actual civil rights worker in the South and (crazy me) later gave money to the Black Panthers — in the interest of transparency (that’s what we all aspire to nowadays, isn’t it?), I cannot tell a lie, George Washington:
I am a racist.
Worse than that, I profile.
When I see a black gangbanger walking down the sidewalk toward me at night, sometimes I cross to the other side. Even if he’s not wearing a hoodie.
Ditto for skanky white guys in ponytails who look like meth heads, bandana-clad Mexicans who might be members of the Zetas, and Asian guys with ominous Fu Manchus, black belts, and ninja pajamas.
Yes, I profile. In that way, at least, I am sort of like the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Not only that, if I carried a gun (I don’t though, I’m too sloppy. Just last week my wife yelled at me for backing up over one of the solar garden lights we just bought) and one of those guys jumped me and started beating the living daylights out of me, I might well shoot him.
So I’m racist… and a profiler. Baaaad.
Why am I racist?
Because I profile, duh. I’m kind of an equal opportunity racist. I profile everyone.
But just to put the icing on the cake, someone I don’t know called me a “racist” on Twitter yesterday. “You must be a racist,” he said, thankfully omitting the requisite exclamation points. This was in reaction to my appearance on NPR to discuss an article I had written on the Zimmerman trial, the same article a columnist at the Washington Post called “deranged” because I likened that sorry, hypocritical event to a Stalinist show trial.
Silly me.
So it’s settled. I must be a racist.
But don’t be smug, dear reader. You’re a racist, too. Even if you comment seventeen times a day on The Huffington Post, cursing Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, you’re still a racist.
That’s just the way things go these days.
Tough luck.
UPDATE: I wrote the above Tuesday morning. Obviously, I was having some fun. But since then I have heard the latest turn in the Zimmerman/Martin saga and I have lost my sense of humor. Our Department of Justice, in its “wisdom,” has just decided to establish an email address through which George Zimmerman’s fellow citizens can report on putative examples of his racism, although a full investigation of the same had been conducted over a year ago by the FBI, yielding a result of no racism. What DOJ is doing now constitutes a witch hunt employing the methodology of a police state, citizen spying on citizen, with Attorney General Eric Holder and his henchman Tom Perez assuming the role of Markus Wolf. If you don’t remember who he was, you can click on the link. Or perhaps have a look at this film. The U.S. Department of Justice channels the Stasi. Did you ever think it could happen here?
Here are some tips on what to send to the DOJ from the #TimmermanTipLine hash tag on Twitter.
The issue isn’t actually racial profiling. It’s behavioral profiling, but not only does such profiling make perfect sense; Jackson, Sharpton and their ilk can’t figure out a way to make money off of it.
yep, I recalled that the other day when many on MSNBC were saying that the same fear-assoiation Jesse articulated is the valid basis for a hate crimes procecution.
The Tipline for Zimmerman’s Inquisition is: Sanford.florida@usdoj.gov ... Use it.
At a teacher “sensitivity” training session in Brooklyn in the early 90’s, the African-American presenter offered the scenario of riding the subway late at night and having a group of young black teens coming your way in an effort to get us white teachers to acknowledge our profiling/racist bent. Every one of the female black teachers present at the session said, “Shoot, I’m holding my purse tighter, too.”
I believe it is a “survival” trait to “profile”. It has become PC to attack “profiling” when profiling is done against protected groups but certainly okay when used against unfavored or unprotected groups. I believe every sane person “profiles” from a natural survival instinct. JJ just committed a liberal “faux pas” by admitting it.
If your not black your f6cked
Bingo! Anyone who doesn't profile everyone is a fool!
Unfortunately, this trend toward criminalizing racism is going to have quite the opposite of it’s intended effect.
Read the full Babel story.
I know that JJ once complained about the Rolling Stone’s “Brown Sugar”. I don’t know what his take is on “Paint It Black”.
No need to, as they will be bogus anway
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