Post by Saknika on Jul 23, 2009 16:43:47 GMT -5
www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090720/US.Harvard.Scholar.Disorderly/
I picked up a few things in this article very quickly.
1) The situation would have been avoided had the professor just proven his identity by providing his ID. The cop obviously didn't recognize him and wanted to be sure.
2) Obama should not be involved in this AT ALL. Personal feelings cloud one's judgment. Not to mention he's the President of the US, not the freakin mayor of that city. He has far more important issues to deal with.
3) The officer obviously isn't prejudiced, but was just trying to do his job.
4) Obama didn't speak of the suspicious nature of the acts committed where police stepped in, just called it all racial profiling as a blanket term.
In regards to all the racial profiling; if blacks and hispanics are getting unjustly profiled by police, is it because they're doing something to deserve it? Remember, the majority of our ghettos are full of these same minorities because they've either come here illegally (and thus don't deserve to be here imo) or because they would rather live on welfare or something to that nature, and not better their lives. When I speak of the ghetto, I'm not talking about unfortunate people. I'm talking about those who have made a conscious decision not to try to better themselves. In my eyes, there is a difference between being poor and unfortunate and not having many nice things or a nice home (and possibly stuck in the ghetto), and then there is the ghetto full of the undesirables. And I'm not saying white people don't live in ghettos, because they do, it's just that the majority are the minorities of this country. This is the same concept of the few who ruin it for the many. You want the "profiling" to stop? Then get these people to clean up their acts and live respectable lives so that the majority of the ghettos disappear. And deport the illegals back to their country, and let them come over legally like everyone else. There is no reason that these people have to live like degenerates, no one is stopping them from trying for better jobs with better hours and better pay. There is nothing that says when they have the ability they can't live in a nice home and send their kids to a respectable school. People of all races do it every day. The problem is that there's too many who adamantly push the "poor black man" kind of mentality, and screw it up for those who are trying hard to be good citizens.
So basically, I feel that if Obama is that worried about how his friend was treated, he better start whipping his fellow black men and minority brothers into shape so that they don't have the mentality that everyone is out to get them. And teach them to just help the officers do their jobs so things go smoothly and quietly.
"I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three — what I think we know separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."
I picked up a few things in this article very quickly.
1) The situation would have been avoided had the professor just proven his identity by providing his ID. The cop obviously didn't recognize him and wanted to be sure.
2) Obama should not be involved in this AT ALL. Personal feelings cloud one's judgment. Not to mention he's the President of the US, not the freakin mayor of that city. He has far more important issues to deal with.
3) The officer obviously isn't prejudiced, but was just trying to do his job.
4) Obama didn't speak of the suspicious nature of the acts committed where police stepped in, just called it all racial profiling as a blanket term.
In regards to all the racial profiling; if blacks and hispanics are getting unjustly profiled by police, is it because they're doing something to deserve it? Remember, the majority of our ghettos are full of these same minorities because they've either come here illegally (and thus don't deserve to be here imo) or because they would rather live on welfare or something to that nature, and not better their lives. When I speak of the ghetto, I'm not talking about unfortunate people. I'm talking about those who have made a conscious decision not to try to better themselves. In my eyes, there is a difference between being poor and unfortunate and not having many nice things or a nice home (and possibly stuck in the ghetto), and then there is the ghetto full of the undesirables. And I'm not saying white people don't live in ghettos, because they do, it's just that the majority are the minorities of this country. This is the same concept of the few who ruin it for the many. You want the "profiling" to stop? Then get these people to clean up their acts and live respectable lives so that the majority of the ghettos disappear. And deport the illegals back to their country, and let them come over legally like everyone else. There is no reason that these people have to live like degenerates, no one is stopping them from trying for better jobs with better hours and better pay. There is nothing that says when they have the ability they can't live in a nice home and send their kids to a respectable school. People of all races do it every day. The problem is that there's too many who adamantly push the "poor black man" kind of mentality, and screw it up for those who are trying hard to be good citizens.
So basically, I feel that if Obama is that worried about how his friend was treated, he better start whipping his fellow black men and minority brothers into shape so that they don't have the mentality that everyone is out to get them. And teach them to just help the officers do their jobs so things go smoothly and quietly.
