In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites
Gee, I wonder why the cops are more likely to question blacks?
Posted on 07/23/2009 2:50:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Governor Deval Patrick this afternoon empathized with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., recalling his own experiences with racial profiling and "feeling powerless" when he was a black teenager at Milton Academy.
“In some ways this is every black man’s nightmare and a reality for many black men," Patrick told a crush of reporters at an impromptu press conference in a hallway at the State House.
“Have I ever had the experience of feeling powerless in a situation like that? Sure I have," Patrick said. "When I was student at Milton Academy, I remember -- a new student fresh from Chicago, a teenager taking walks to the local convenience store -- being stopped for no reason than just being on the sidewalk."
"For me the aftermath of this incident shows something I have noticed over the years about our discourse on race," Patrick said in the chat. "I feel in this country that we struggle to find a way to balance the extraordinary progress we have made on the path of racial justice with an acknowledgement of the work that remains. Some want to act as if the struggle is over and the issues are gone. Others act as if nothing has changed in the last hundred years. Neither perspective is quite right, in my view and experience."
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Bonfire of the Vanities
Despicable.
Ma would have been better off if he got busted for stealing then as he is stealing a lot more now.
Deval’s word doesn’t carry a lot of weight in MA these days.
Ah geeze...use ANYTHING to get obama’s bomb of a healthcare speech off the radar.
I’m sure law enforcement all around the country are getting an eye opener what their President and the Mass Guv really think of them. They sure don’t have your back, guys.
I’m stunned Obama hasn’t given him a no show job in Washington.
I think the race industry needs to be forced to buy carbon credits.
I don’t think he’ be caught dead in a Fiesta Food Store.
Keep going, Deval. Do, and this will surely be your one and only term.
Well hell Gov. Look at your prisons and see who populates them. It ain’t whitie...........Oh I forgot that you are legally blind...my bad.
STOP THE TAPE! LOL!
EVERYONE feels powerless when being questioned by a cop - especially when you were speeding or had to explain why you were breaking into a house (even your own).
Blacks obviously think the police throw parties for all white people.
I just threw up.
In sum, feel free to smash “professor” Gates’s door down, since the cops aren’t ever going to go there for a mere smashed-down door, as that is not suspicious.
In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites
Gee, I wonder why the cops are more likely to question blacks?
I hope white liberals start to clean out the wax in their ears and find out what most of us have known for years—that almost every black democratic politician hates your @ss (even if you vote for them) and you will never be their equal and always have to continue boot-licking for past “sins” regardless.
Not only has Barry lost the respect of most cops (so much for his “national security force”), but his approval rating is now headed for the sewers.....
You wouldn’t be “profiling” would you?
Remember only WHITEY can commit “hate crimes”!!!!
When blacks kill whites—that’s retribution. It doesn’t count in other words.
This is not a case of racial profiling
Thanks to Barry Zero talking out of his ass, this cop will have to endure a hell of threats and slander.
Why the hell is the POTUS commenting on a local police matter in the first place?
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