Reply #71: Do they?...

[awoke_in_2003]

my wife is a third generation Mexican American. And yes, she definitely looks latina. She has never been hassled by the cops in her life. What happens when this bill comes to Texas? This bill, should it come here, will give cops a free license to stop her just because of the color of her skin. When she calls me, I will have to leave work (not the easiest thing to do in my situation), go home, and dig out her birth certificate. Why? Because she isn't lily white like me. Meanwhile, she will be locked up because her skin is a little bit more brown than mine. It is a bunch of xenophobic shit. Cops do this to African Americans all the time (Driving While Black)- now they can expand it to latinos (Driving While Brown). We shouldn't be expanding this bad policy, we should be working at reducing it.