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Offline mrclose

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Profiling
« on: March 28, 2012, 08:25:42 PM »
Read the words of one of my personal hero's (Walter Williams) and his take on Blacks and profiling.

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Right now, there isn't enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch tour in an Orlando, Fla., suburb. If evidence emerges that Zimmerman's actions were not justified, he should be prosecuted and punished; however, there's a larger issue that few people understand or have the courage to acknowledge, namely that black and young has become synonymous with crime and, hence, suspicion. To make that connection does not make one a racist. Let's look at it.

Twelve years ago, a black Washington, D.C., commissioner warned cabbies, most of whom were black, against picking up dangerous-looking passengers. She described "dangerous-looking" as a "young black guy ... with shirttail hanging down longer than his coat, baggy pants, unlaced tennis shoes." She also warned cabbies to stay away from low-income black neighborhoods. Did that make the D.C. commissioner a racist?

There is more at the link and it is well worth the 4 or 5 minutes to read the rest.

Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell are two of my favorite .. Uncle Toms! :yahoo:





http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/03/28/profiling
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2012, 05:12:29 PM »
20 years or so ago, the NAACP was down on the black Charleston S.C. police chief. They were doing their best to get him fired. 60 minutes even did a piece on him about him being so hard on the blacks criminal element....it was funny, he got the best of 60 minutes. I was surprised they even showed it.
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2012, 05:20:24 PM »
Years back Thomas Sowell did a piece comparing the Black community at the time of slavery to just prior to the 1964 civil rights act then to present day. It was an eye opener interesting piece.
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2012, 07:04:01 PM »
"Uncle Toms"?????
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2012, 08:55:27 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on March 29, 2012, 07:04:01 PM
"Uncle Toms"?????

I'm guessing he is mocking the lefties by saying that.
We do that a lot here where we sarcastically use the terms the left likes to use.
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2012, 09:09:14 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on March 29, 2012, 08:55:27 PM
I'm guessing he is mocking the lefties by saying that.
We do that a lot here where we sarcastically use the terms the left likes to use.
Yes .. Uncle Toms or if you prefer .. Oreo Cookies.

"Before" anyone goes on the 'Racist' tirade .. I have been called both! :mad:

To clarify .. I am a 'mulatto' .. The Good Looking One!
The other? (not so good looking) .. Obama! :cheersmate:
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2012, 10:24:49 PM »
So, you never need a tan and still need a camo stick before going on missions. :-) J/K my best friend in the world, my former Asst. Section Sergeant, has a black father and white mother. He's a conservative and more to the right than I am. If there's ever another pic thread, I'll post the pic.
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2012, 10:25:32 PM »
Btw, we don't do PC here. Someone needs to tell Vesta that. I'm the Chappelle of the board. Damn I miss him.
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2012, 10:49:29 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on March 29, 2012, 10:24:49 PM
So, you never need a tan and still need a camo stick before going on missions. :-) J/K my best friend in the world, my former Asst. Section Sergeant, has a black father and white mother. He's a conservative and more to the right than I am. If there's ever another pic thread, I'll post the pic.
Just the opposite .. Pale skinned Dad and Chocolate Beauty Mom :lmao:

I kinda, sorta did need the stik in the back country (nam) because as you may or may not know .. We Good Lookin Mulatto's take on a kinda 'sheen' when we sweat! :rofl:

(That was a d@mn humid and HOT time in my young life!)



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Re: Profiling
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2012, 11:02:25 PM »
Hooah, trooper. I'm glad we had guys like you, Doc, and Texacon to jump out of perfectly good airplanes. I know my ass wasn't. ;-)
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2012, 11:19:51 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on March 29, 2012, 11:02:25 PM
Hooah, trooper. I'm glad we had guys like you, Doc, and Texacon to jump out of perfectly good airplanes. I know my ass wasn't. ;-)
Thanks Rebel.
One correction though .. My @$$ was 'pushed' out of a perfectly good Chinook! :panic:
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2012, 11:47:34 PM »
Airwolf will teach you how to fast rope out of one.
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2012, 11:49:22 PM »
Air Assault, 10 days. Airborne, 3 weeks. What I've been told by double stackers is, mentally, Air Assault is harder. Takes that math stuff.
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2012, 11:50:33 PM »
....but I can drive the hell out of a Deuce, 5-Ton, or MTV.
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2012, 08:58:19 AM »
Props to my fellow 101 vets, I was with 3rd BDE (War Eagles) shortly after all its BNs were reflagged to 187th Infantry lineage.

Rakkasan!

...I see Zimmerman was promoted from 'White Hispanic' to 'Part Hispanic' in that story...

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Re: Profiling
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2012, 09:02:33 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on March 30, 2012, 08:58:19 AM
Props to my fellow 101 vets, I was with 3rd BDE (War Eagles) shortly after all its BNs were reflagged to 187th Infantry lineage.

Rakkasan!


I've driven by their headquarters on Campbell. Didn't know what the hell that meant until I pulled it up on Wiki. IIRC, some kind of Japanese flying thing?
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Re: Profiling
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2012, 09:38:20 AM »
Quote from: Rebel on March 30, 2012, 09:02:33 AM
I've driven by their headquarters on Campbell. Didn't know what the hell that meant until I pulled it up on Wiki. IIRC, some kind of Japanese flying thing?

It's a reference to the umbrella-like appearance of the 'chutes, from the 187th RCT's airborne days, Wiki has a good exlplanation of it, really.  Pretty colorful history, including island assaults in the Pacific and combat jumps in Korea (The era from which the moniker dates).
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