Know anyone who thinks racial profiling is exaggerated? Send them this link.

[redqueen]

http://www.upworthy.com/know-anyone-that-thinks-racial-profiling-is-exaggerated-watch-this-and-tell-me-when-your-jaw-drops-2

Sexism on display as well.

[Cali_Democrat]

1. And this kind of profiling gets blacks killed

For the most notorious example....see the Trayvon/Zimmerman case.

The only reason why Zimmerman defenders exist is because they want to justify being able to profile, stalk and kill unarmed blacks.

[uponit7771]

2. The "theif" never said it was NOT a friends he just said it wasn't his so the guy who took his tools

...had no right to other than blatent disrespect

[Generic Other]

3. That was revealing wasn't it?

I wonder what the results of the same experiment in a predominantly black community park?

[uponit7771]

5. Me 2

[Generic Other]

6. It might end the same way

Angry black folks surrounding white punk. Someone calling 911. And the same people asking the black kid if he needed help.

Maybe this is more about assuming which kid looked like they fit in the neighborhood. That's what got Trayvon Martin killed. Zimmerman assumed he didn't belong in the neighborhood. Would Zimmerman have killed Martin if he was white? Would he have even followed him?

All of the scenarios rely on people's assumptions. What they assume to be true as opposed to the reality of the situation.

It is an eye-opening video.

[TalkingDog]

13. I got stopped for "Driving While Poor" back in the early 80's

And by a black cop too. (probably the only one on the force at that point)

I was heading home from my boyfriend's who lived with his parents in THE upscale neighborhood in town. (They were out of town ) It was very early morning and I was driving my patched up beater home.

It quickly became weird when a black cop in a small Southern town is stopping a young white woman very early in the morning.

He asked why I was out so early and I told him. He claimed someone had reported a suspicious vehicle in the neighborhood. But I distinctly noticed that he kept his distance from the car and kept his hands clasped behind his back.

It was altogether a weird dance of race, sex, and privilege.

[geek tragedy]

4. Or anyone who thinks white privilege is a myth. nt

[grok]

7. zimmerman was racially profiled

.so profiling does exist.

[brush]

8. He wouldn't have been if he hadn't profiled Martin then killed him. nt

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[grok]

11. i think he did profile martin. but not racially

more like a youth behaving wierd and out of place....

black would have been an afterthought.

on the otherhand an entire community profiled zimmerman as HAVIng to a a purebred natzi whithe guy. because only that kind of persone would see something wrong with a somebody not white out of place and acting wierd....

[ismnotwasm]

9. K&R

[Scuba]

10. The product of years and years of conditioning ...

[Number23]

16. Exactly. Gender would not have mattered as much in this equation.

I'm willing to bet the reaction to a black woman sawing at a locked bike would have been a hell of a lot closer to the black male than the white chick.

[quinnox]

12. they were all over that black kid in seconds

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

14. Very revealing. It would be even better if the same people could have been the reactors.

[Number23]

15. What sexism is on display? I see alot of racially focused jumping of conclusions

Do you think the reaction to the blonde would have been the same if it had been a black woman?

[think]

19. whoops misread your post.

my bad...

[newmember]

17. One had his cap sideways

[think]

18. K&R. Sad but very telling about American society....