07-21-2013, 12:03 PM
(07-21-2013, 11:05 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Also, lots of talk about how black children aren't safe from profilers like Zimmerman under such laws, nor are they protected by the justice system under such laws.
Zimmerman? C'mon, HotD . . . you're sugar coating the issue!
Why wasn't it just a few days ago that our US Attorney General, Eric Holder, basically stated all LEOs are racist when it comes to Black youth?
"So Trayvon’s death last spring caused me to sit down to have a conversation with my own 15-year-old son, like my dad did with me. This was a father-son tradition I hoped would not need to be handed down. But as a father who loves his son and who is more knowing in the ways of the world, I had to do this to protect my boy. I am his father, and it is my responsibility, not to burden him with the baggage of eras long gone, but to make him aware of the world that he must still confront. This is a sad reality in a nation that is changing for the better in so many ways.
Years ago, some of these same issues drove my father to sit down with me to have a conversation — which is no doubt familiar to many of you — about how, as a young black man, I should interact with the police, what to say and how to conduct myself if I was ever stopped or confronted in a way that I thought was unwarranted."
Wow . . . Talk about profiling, Mr. Attorney General!
Too bad you missed the fact Skittles folks didn't really give a damn about him and perhaps they needed "the talk".
If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Holder, you did state it is the parents' responsibility for the safety of their child:
"I had to do this to protect my boy. I am his father, and it is my responsibility . . ."