@cameron83: kinda sound a tad racist by constantly saying white people don't have problems. People profile white people by thinking we are all racist or that we are all privileged. Anywho back on topic.
I didn't say that white people don't have problems (didn't even insinuate that),but I don't think that all racial problems are uniform throughout the board. They don't have to worry about,let's say,getting stopped at the airport and patted down while being suspected of being a criminal like a minority does. By the way,that isn't really what I would call racism. And it depends on what you mean by privileged,but it's pretty asinine and ignorant for anyone to suggest that white people have to worry about,let's say,being suspected of being a criminal or being discriminated against by people in society as much as a minority (for example,a black person or a hispanic person) does,and that it happens to the same degree. Not saying that you are saying this,not even implying that,but there are people that say that,which is where "white tears" comes into play when some people use it (other people just use it because they don't want to hear what a person says if they are white,which is incredibly bigoted,but whatever).
Racial profiling isn't arresting people for no reason, it is specifically targeting people, such as pulling a middle eastern person out of line at an airport and doing extra screening, or the "pat down" in NYC. They don't arrest innocent people due to racial profiling, that would fall under police corruption.
Racial profiling is targeting people of being criminals for their race and suspecting them of being criminals-you are correct. But innocent people are arrested,and many times they are targeted in the first place on the basis of their race via racial profiling,iirc
I mean,if that person was actually breaking the law,then I won't consider them "innocent",but if they are actually only suspected of being criminals really due to their race/gender/orientation,etc,then....
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