Maybe Profiling Isn't Such A Bad Idea?

[anarchist_nomad]

Dylann Roof
Elliot Rodger
Adam Lanza
James Holmes
Jared Loughner

Need I continue?

Perhaps we should start a random 'stop and frisk' type screening for white USAmerican males who are roughly between the ages of 16 and 25?[*]

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[*] Yes, I know they don't account for all the mass shootings. You've got Seung-Hui Cho (Korean), Wade Michael Page (40), Aaron Alexis (black), and so on. But the list is definitely disproportionately young white men.

Comments

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I can't begin to describe how black people and white people fear, misunderstand, and have negative expectations of one another here in the US. Black parents give their teenage sons "the talk", about behaving in an exaggeratedly respectful way towards the police (and towards white adults in general). I know white women, my own age, who will, out of fear, cross the street and walk on the other side when they see a group of black people, or even one black person, standing on the sidewalk (footpath), no matter what the black people look like or what they're doing - hey, they're black, they must be about to commit a violent crime!

Why can't people get it through their heads that there's only one "race" on this planet - the HUMAN race?

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

You know, it's been nearly 50 years since Jane Elliott and the "Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes" experiment. Half a century!

You would think we would have learned by now that race is a made-up construct, and stop being so damn racist.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I remember that - it was a schoolteacher's idea for trying to help her all-white class understand racism, the day after Martin Luther King was killed. (I was in my junior year at Hofstra at the time.) Like all the other hippies, I'd been overcome by a scalding sense of injustice that started with the first "sit-in" a few years earlier. As you point out, why haven't we learned anything since then? Dammit, we're all just PEOPLE!