Time to stop racial profiling?

[guyser]

Please, make your choice will ya.

[Griz]

Would anyone out there in cyberspace deny the fact that most of the problems stem from white peoples not giving either the black or aboriginal people a fair chance at bettering themselves??

We have kept them from earning a decent living by ostracizing them according to race and colour.

Most lose their self respect and turn to crime to augment their meager income.

Wow! Someone who makes sense! Yes I agree what you said to a degree! Isn't this hidden benefit enjoyed by whites called "white privilege? When some whites hear this--they get "hoppin mad" Gee wonder why? I heard that sometimes the truth stings

[Oleg Bach]

Wow! Someone who makes sense! Yes I agree what you said to a degree! Isn't this hidden benefit enjoyed by whites called "white privilege? When some whites hear this--they get "hoppin mad" Gee wonder why? I heard that sometimes the truth stings

The mutant blue eyed whites are and will always be the cruelest and most politely preditorial creatures on earth. In some cultures they are refered to as the blue eyed wolves...and the rest are sheep...just like the idea of democracy that the whites so embrace....can be explained as "Two wolves and one sheep VOTING on what's for dinner".

[BigAl]

Umm...no. I don't know more than a few handfuls of black men and women but each and everyone one I know is a professional who probably makes more money than me. They are teachers, doctors, senior financial executives, salespeople....

Actually no. They have exactly the same opportunities as everyone else. They can go to school. university, get jobs....

That is an extrememly racist sentiment.

Agreed, agreed, agreed. Also -- how about the prevalence of so-called "white collar" crime? Drug sales don't exist in a vacuum; they have to come from somewhere and they pass through an awful lot of hands before they get to those evil black gangs who sell them on the street corners. I'll give you three guesses as to the skin colour of a lot of those hands. Go ahead, I'll wait. (for those playing the home game, the correct answer is "rich white motherf*ckers)

[charter.rights]

Wow! Someone who makes sense! Yes I agree what you said to a degree! Isn't this hidden benefit enjoyed by whites called "white privilege? When some whites hear this--they get "hoppin mad" Gee wonder why? I heard that sometimes the truth stings

While this may sound plausible from my understanding of the problem it really stems from the loss of community - the kinds of things where support and services are provided. In return for joining gangs members gain a sense of belonging and worth. In the case of prison the same types of things happen where several communities exist. The same occurs in the homeless who develop their own communities on the street. No matter how difficult living on the streets, in prisons or on ghettos is, the community makes it tolerable.

[tango]

Yep and until our politicians stop worrying about being pc it won't get any better. The socialists need the blacks to be gangsters so they have a cause for white liberal guilt.

Don't get out much do you?

[jbg]

How do you feel about the racial profiling that goes on in the media?

Obama's election should have put paid to the idea that visible minorities have any but self-created obstacles to achievement.

[BigAl]

Obama's election should have put paid to the idea that visible minorities have any but self-created obstacles to achievement.

Weeeell...on some level I tend to agree with you, but I think it's a slippery slope to assume there are NOTHING but self-created obstacles for visible minorities in this part of the world. I mean, I'm white and English-speaking -- but the chances of me becoming Prime Minister are slim to none, because I don't have the startup capital necessary to run for office. Does that mean the only obstacles before me are self-created? My point is the fact that Obama was elected isn't necessarily an indication that anybody can do anything.

[bush_cheney2004]

Obama's election should have put paid to the idea that visible minorities have any but self-created obstacles to achievement.

Unfortunately, the very term "visible minority" provides a government sponsored excuse for failure (and whining).

[jbg]

Weeeell...on some level I tend to agree with you, but I think it's a slippery slope to assume there are NOTHING but self-created obstacles for visible minorities in this part of the world. I mean, I'm white and English-speaking -- but the chances of me becoming Prime Minister are slim to none, because I don't have the startup capital necessary to run for office. Does that mean the only obstacles before me are self-created? My point is the fact that Obama was elected isn't necessarily an indication that anybody can do anything.

The point is that minority status itself is nothing but a self-created obstacle. That doesn't mean there aren't other obstacles.

Personally, I don't have the money to vacation at certain Anguilla resorts. But that has nothing to do with racial or religious status.