Jeff [earlier]: Actually, what the link says is that... racial profiling does not exist in the scale many media and political figures have said it had
Make up your mind, please.
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Racial Profiling doesn't exist as a vast conspiracy of police. If it exists at all, it does so on an invididual basis as the result of an officer's bias. Therefore, I stand by what I said: racial profiling, as detailed by Clinton, Bush, etc., doesn't exist.
Racial Profiling = The organized variety put forward by many people, doesn't exist.
racial profiling = the bias of one officer (notice lack of caps) does exist.
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The interesting thing about racial profiling is that non-white officers do it also.... In news reports about the 'racial profiling' in Detroit a black guy was trying to sue the DPD for racial profiling him when he got pulled over, said he was just picked out of the line of cars at random.... His only problem was it was a lone black officer that got him, said he was speeding or some such thing, turned out he had a felony warrant for his arrest..... It did happen in a lighter part of Detroit, so..... If a [insert ethnic type] cop goes and does it to his/her own ethnic group, is it racial profiling, or a cops gut instinct???
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I remember seeing something on TV several years ago, about Cops in Fla. using this to catch people caring drugs out of Fla. It was very suscessesful, so they made them stop because so many of the people being stopped were black.
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Racial, there is only one species on human being. There are several races. I am not a biology major or anything but I believe one of the factors of different species is their ability to mate with one another,as all humans can mate with one another we are all one species.
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Then we do not belong to the Human Race, but, Human Races......
Even on the census they ask about ethnic origin, not race.....
Main Entry: 3race Function: noun Etymology: Middle French, generation, from Old Italian razza Date: 1580 1 : a breeding stock of animals 2 a : a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b : a class or kind of people unified by community of interests, habits, or characteristics 3 a : an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species; also : a taxonomic category (as a subspecies) representing such a group b : BREED c : a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a distinct human type 4 obsolete : inherited temperament or disposition 5 : distinctive flavor, taste, or strength
Main Entry: 1eth�nic Pronunciation: 'eth-nik Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ethnicus, from Greek ethnikos national, gentile, from ethnos nation, people; akin to Greek Ethos custom -- more at SIB Date: 15th century 1 : HEATHEN 2 a : of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background b : being a member of an ethnic group c : of, relating to, or characteristic of ethnics neighborhoods>
They seem quite close, mmmm, almost interchangable....
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The thing about the concept of race versus ethnicity is that its commonly accepted that race should only be used to refer to divisions between the three main, um, "races" (Causcoid, Negroid and Mongoloid, in un-PC-1960s-filmstripspeak, plus isolated groupings from Australia & Oceania we still don't know how to fit in) while ethnic divisions can be anything as tiny as British-descent Protestants and Irish-descent Catholics in Northern Ireland to Polynesians vs. Indians in Fiji.
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There's also the fact that saying "there is no human race, therefore anyone who says there is is wrong" is up there with "no, the millenium started in 2001, it did" in the List Of Things That Will Stop You Being Invited To Good Parties.
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