FOR NO REASON?

"Shhh . . . what you are about to read is politically incorrect. Tafadhali, repeat only in whispers."

So-called 'black' culture breeds them with: "They stopped me for no reason, telling me that I fit the profile of a suspect they was looking for. They ain't got no business messing wit' me when I ain't done nothing -- they's racists and I know my rights. I tol' 'em to go to hell and git the shit out'er my face. They tried to cuff me, and I fought 'em -- all three of 'em, wit' they guns and clubs. They vench'ly took me down, but they knows um a man . . . ." That's the 'black' culture formula, taught by example.

You grow up hearing: "That's my son, he's a good boy and nobody can make me b'lieve he'd commit no crime" or "She's my child, a church-going child, and she wouldn' do nothing wrong -- it's racism, but they don't know who they messing wit'. Um gittin' the NAACP and that civil rights preacher, we puttin' a stop to this racist mess . . . ."

You're walking down a street in a 'black' community in the 1970s and you see cars pulling up to stop signs and traffic lights, and young 'blacks' run out to the cars, trying to sell drugs to the occupants, white or 'black'. Every fifteen or twenty feet, one approaches you. "You straight? You need any thang?" he asks. It's broad daylight, 'blacks' profiling themselves. Any passing policeman can arrest dozens. And race hustlers whine, "This racist profiling of black men is filling these jails and prisons with innocent black men . . ."

'Okay, sir,' the policeman says to the suspect, 'you and I know the profiles of each other we were given in our formative years, and there's been -- and still is -- evidence in these streets to support those profiles. But as a policeman I've been authorized by the government to keep the peace, and given a gun and a club to defend that authority and myself against disrespect. And as long as I wear this badge, that's what I'm gonna do.

'Once you and I accept that, we can resolve this problem that I stopped you for. Doesn't mean that those profiles we have of each other aren't always with us, just means that we have to try to stand above them -- if they don't apply to you and me -- but we're all profiled, policemen, lawyers, athletes, preachers, races, nationalities . . . .'