Are you racist?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by The Shadoe

My poli sci professor says that if the police were targetting black people he wouldn't ever drive anywhere.

Ask your professor when the last time he drove through Compton in his professor-salary car was. Now, I'm not saying the cops don't have good reason to racially profile in an area like that (nor am I saying they do). All I'm saying is that one black professor in St. Paul Minnesota who's never been harassed hardly disproves anything. Not exactly a representative sampling.

As for affirmative action "telling the black American that he or she is not as intelligent or capable as the white American and therefore needs a helping hand to be equal," that's one way to spin it. The other way is to say that the concentration of minority children in poor, underfunded schools and living conditions unsuited to learning mean that relying purely on comparing test scores and grades as college entrance criteria puts them at an instant disadvantage.