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In reply to the discussion: Privilege = shit you don't have to put up with [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)where he said while was working at Princeton he used to drive from Connecticut to Princeton several times a week and maybe once a week he was stopped on the Turnpike because a black guy driving a BMW toward Philly had to be a dealer. Joisey state cops claim they never profile. Eventually, they publicly announced that although they never profile, they would stop.
Several years ago a black man driving a Cadillac was stopped, frisked, and held in the little Port Authority jail at Newark Airport because the Port Authority cops admitted they profiled him. When he pulled out his ID, it was his credentials as a Federal district judge.
No, as much as I might get a little pissed at the rhetoric sometimes, this is the sort of thing that doesn't happen to me. It shouldn't happen to anyone.