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Colin Powell: I’ve Been Victim of Racial Profiling ‘Many Times’ (video)
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| July 28, 2009
Posted on 07/28/2009 6:32:03 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Paved Paradise
I know how to straighten em out!
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:39:58 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: DoughtyOne
So did I until about half way through the first time I heard him speak.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:40:46 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:41:07 PM PDT
by
mort56
(He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:41:34 PM PDT
by
Larry381
("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
To: fso301
if you get pulled by a black cop can the white guy shout racism too or this just a one way thing?
Son you can't have that job it is going to that guy because he is black
but but but, I got all A's he got a D
yea so he is black now shut up you can't have that job-——————————————————————————
Son you can have that job based on your great grades
but but but why is he getting it I am black , so what if I got D's I am black now give me a job or I'll call bozo , jackson and sharpton and we'll cry racism He is losing it for sure, so now it is racist becasue they did not know him.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:42:16 PM PDT
by
manc
(Marriage is between a man and a woman , nothing else-- end racism end affirmative action)
To: Texas Eagle
Little did they know how right they were. You ought not to have been the national security adviser to ANY president.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:42:21 PM PDT
by
Carley
(OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Wasn’t it 9 out of 10 people could not recognize a photo of Dick Cheney on Sean Hannity’s Man on the Street? Were those people racist?
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:42:24 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Free ThinkerNY
'Is my guest here who's waiting for me?'
Uh, if he is waiting for him, then he is there.
To: Free ThinkerNY
He’s their useful idiot, and this is the week they need him to try to be useful to them, while the beer at the WH is getting cold.
Rat-jerks.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:43:18 PM PDT
by
Canedawg
( "Government cant make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - S. Palin)
To: Texas Eagle
Affirmative action obviously carried him to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State.
This half century long racist drumbeat is ... FINALLY beginning to fray the nerves of Middle America.
We're mad as hell and ... WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:43:40 PM PDT
by
Bob Eimiller
(appeasement "it's the idea that if you feed the alligator he will eat you last." Winston Churchill)
To: Bob Eimiller
Affirmative action obviously carried him to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State.Amen, bro.
What an ingrate.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:44:57 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: Texas Eagle
I think Powell got pissed off because Gates was more racist than he was.
That’s right Colon, down with whitey!!
To: Free ThinkerNY
That’s kinda hard to believe...they didn’t recognize Colin Powell?
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:48:09 PM PDT
by
Snurple
(VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Well, Mr. Chairman of the Joint Dumbasses, why don't you do what your beloved President does; take a podium with a plaque that reads, "The Seal Of The Office Of The Former National Security Adviser" on it everywhere you go so people know who you are.
Whew. That was a long sentence. I probably should've broken it up somehow.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:48:50 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: Free ThinkerNY
this guy is NUTS! he could have been white and not recognized....what is it with these black “celebrities”? they need to get a life.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:48:59 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: Free ThinkerNY
And I’ve been a victim of gender profiling many, many times. Cry me a river. Moveon.org
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:49:04 PM PDT
by
Reagan69
(No Representation without Taxation)
To: Bob Eimiller
"Affirmative action obviously carried him to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State." This is why affirmative action has to go. So long as it's the law of the land, when a person of color reaches a certain level of success, people can always wonder if they got their merely because someone was trying to satisfy a diversity goal.
I have no way of knowing if Powell rose the levels he did because of the color of his skin, but it's a legitimate question if affirmative action is legal. I do think however, he get's WAY too much credit for the first Gulf War, and he was highly overrated as SOS, IMHO.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:50:27 PM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: Free ThinkerNY
"I got mad when I, as a national security adviser to the president of the United States, I went down to meet somebody at Reagan National Airport and nobody recognized -- nobody thought I could possibly be the national security adviser to the president. Yeah? You know what they make me do at the airport? They make me take off my stinky shoes and belt and pants and shirt and underwear and throw it all in a stupid little plastic tray and feed it through some stupid x-ray machine.
Well, actually, I take my shirt and pants and underwear off voluntarily. What can I say? I just like going around naked.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:53:20 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I know there is racist profiling, but I doubt it is as much as claimed. What are police supposed to do when 2 black bank robbers are fleeing east in a black SUV--stop every SUV, whites, Hispanic, Asian, or look for 2 black men?
What kind of profiling is it when a group of teenage girls are pulled over and have their car searched by local police (35 years ago, no probable cause). What kind of profiling is it when a highway patrolman pulls a 20 something blonde over for speeding (when she wasn't)and tries to make a date--scarey when you are in the country--what's the charge--driving while blonde?What kind of profiling is it when local police stop an out of state car--that happens in a lot of small communities, to all races, but I guarantee if it is a black, they think racism.
My point, well answered by a couple of black Cambridge police on TV today is that every incident between black and white is not racial profiling.
These problems speak to hate crime legislation--a crime is a crime and hate is involved in all crimes.It is not reserved for blacks and homosexuals. A wrongful stop is a wrongful stop, no matter the color or gender involved.
Off my soapbox for now!
vaudine
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:56:20 PM PDT
by
vaudine
To: Free ThinkerNY
It was likely more that he was a guy at Reagan National Airport. Not "...just a black guy at Reagan National Airport."
Sorry that you didn't get your butt kissed, Colin. What a prima dona.
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:58:24 PM PDT
by
Ghengis
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