Quote:Whites do a lot of drugs. I did drugs when I was a kid, I got searched when I was a kid. I got arrested for doing crap like that when I was a kid. My girlfriends a juvenile probation officer and half her white kids are on probation for doing drugs and getting searched and arrested. Can we at least agree both white people and black people can do criminal things and no one deserves to be singled out regardless? When people do illegal things cops get called. Its what happens.

First of all, my comment was kind of abrasive, sorry. Your comments are honest, which I appreciate, but at the same time, they are a bit frustrating.


It appears that you understand the situation, but are missing the big picture implication...


We can agree that unlawful search and seizure should not be done to any cohort of the population that singles out that group or implicated guilt before innocence.


But the point is this--- it is happening and had been happening for decades if not longer.


You point out that as a younger man you got popped for possession. Did you get any prison time? Did your parents lose custody of you to the state? Were you given a bail amount that you couldn't afford, therefore you had to stay in jail for months waiting for your court date, this losing your housing and job?


Now imagine this happening to all your friends, family, and neighbors over and over again for generations. Think about how your community would look if it was occupied not by peace officers who were on your side, but cops that are constantly pulling everyone over and trying very hard to find a reason to haul you in.


This is what's going on in the inner cities. Where as, if cops used the same occupy tactics they use in the suburbs, given that as you mention, whites use illegal drugs at the same rate, if not higher, than blacks those suburban communities would also become decimated.


That's deal. That's why black and brown folks are protesting.

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