ù Quoting Ron Taylor from a message to Ryan Bagueros  ù 
RT> If you are suggesting that the young black youth and his friends are 
RT> conducting themselves in the same manner that I am and presenting a 
RT> decent impression of themselves, damn right I deny that the police 
RT> would treat them differently.
Well, then, this is where your ignorance comes into play. You are DAMN wrong 
if
you think that a cop wouldn't look at young (poor) black youth differently 
than
a middle-class white person, you are SADLY out of touch with what is going 
on. 
You can literally just about ask ANY black person if racism exists today in 
the
criminal justice system and just about any will answer yes, because they KNOW 
through their life experiences what racism is all about. Being white, it is 
far
too easy to ignore it and pretend like it isn't there.
RT> If, however, the black youth and his friends are driving a vehicle 
RT> with all the windows darkened, playing their "system" so loud that 
RT> windows shake two blocks away, and do everything in their power to 
RT> insult and intimidate the citizenry as well as the police, then yes, 
Excuse me? You can take your citizenry and shove it where the sun doesn't 
shine. If the hypothetical youth in question are playing their music within 
legal limits, and have their windows tinted to the legal degree, then the cop 
has NO right to harrass them. Black kids do not owe your middle-class 
citizenry
jack sh*t, and trying to enforce racist aesthetics or "good taste" is pure 
crap.
Wake up and welcome to America, buddy. Stick your head out of that 
sitcom-addled suburban neighborhood of your's and find out what's really 
happening, because you've shown that you have no idea.
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