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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?
Holder created an email address to report on a private citizen?
wtf...
Where is the email address to report on Eric Holder?
OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
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.
While situational awareness is always a good thing. And all races have bad guys. I am tired of this caveat, this 'yeah but' placating platitude. Certain races, of which blacks are one, have a hugely disproportional amount of young male criminals.
The Emperor has no clothes.
Up is down, down is up...whatta world, whatta world...
I remember him admitting that but he was told to NEVER admit that again in public
Charles Colson used to ask this question:
“Let’s say you are walking towards the Bus Stop in the streets of Harlem one late, dark night and encountered a group of young men in jeans and hoodies walking towards you, would you be more comfortable knowing they just came out of a club, or would you be more comfortable knowing they came out of a neighborhood Church Bible Study?”
Spent the first 57 years of my life in Fun City.
I profiled ALL the time...it was a matter of survival.
Perhaps we should flood the Holder email address with bogus claims.
This is the EXACT QYOTE from Jess jackson:
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
Another thing to be aware of is numbers.
If there are more than two, avoid them.
Confessions of an idiot waiting to be victimized: I don't profile
Confessions of a liar: I don't profile
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
THANK YOU!
A few ideas here
#ZimmermanTipLine Once spoke of his “Typical White Grandmother”
Consoled neighbor who was robbed by black home invaders #ZimmermanTipLine
#ZimmermanTipLine He said that Boston police acted stupidly before he knew the facts of the case
I agree. I repeat for the thousandth time-government statistics show that regarding interracial crime, a white person is many times more likely to be attacked by a black person than the reverse. In the case of rape, the discrepancy is huge-app 100 black on whites per day, compared to so few white on black rapes, it’s statistically nil.
I too am fed up with this attempt white people employ to try to make some equivalence between black on white crime and the miniscule number of white on black crimes.
Yet the media blares that black men are being “preyed upon” by whites, when the exact opposite is the truth.
There are no white equivalents of “Knock Out King” or “Polar Bear Hunting”.
And the only white on black rape cases (which were made into occasion for yet more accusations and lectures to whites) were false accusations. Neither wefre apologies forthcoming from the media for their part in ginning up the faux outrage over the false accusations.
There is a high-crime black area in the Metro area where I live. I know that 90% of the blacks in that area would not hurt a fly. Many of those 90% are church-going blacks that would help me if I were lost or had car trouble and have done this in the past. In my own neighborhood, however, I don’t have to worry about the other 10%. So I stay out of the black area where possible. That does not make me a racist. I’m just trying to survive by playing the odds.
Honoring Trayvon With Beatings, Muggings, Burglary and Arson
http://godfatherpolitics.com/11766/honoring-trayvon-with-beatings-muggings-burglary-and-arson/
Exactly. Like saying one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
Actually, the skanky white guy with a pony tail is less likely to beat you up than a frat boy in Tommy Hilfiger duds.
But the black “gang banger” has about a 30% chance of just being out of prison, carrying an illegal gun, in the process of committing a crime, or all of the above.
Profiling based on philosophy is racist. Profiling based on facts is smart.
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