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These posts are fascinating, so many point of views and ways of describing an event.
I have to say, if I saw four young men dressed in "gangsta" style clothing in a large SUV motioning ME to stop, I would NOT do so and assume the worst; better to be safe than sorry. So, I live and I MIGHT be assuming guilt where there is none. So be it.
Again to me, it is not the skin pigment, it is the total package. Guys who dress in "gangsta fashions" simply give me the whillies and make me want to find a better place to be. White, black or tan pigment, I am out of there when the rest of the package is present.
If four guys in Brooks Brothers suits motioned to me, I might feel totally the other way. Likely I would.
Does that make me a "clothes bigot?" I think so. It also is driven by my survival instincts which try to alert me to when there is danger, when there is not.
Do men who where this garb statistically represent a greater degree of danger. I THINK so, if you believe the news reports we see every day.
Lastly, what is fascinating is that virtually every news report of crime in the USA starts with the color of the suspects skin, ie, four white men or four black men were arrested today. They COULD just say four teenagers or four men in their twenties, etc. but they don't.
Could it be that the news media are closet bigots? Or, just reporting the more obvious elements of how you describe someone to the police for example?
What say you, are we being LED to this type of communication by our news media types?
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