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Originally Posted by ladyjane  Agreed. My son went through this one day when he was a senior in high school. During lunch hour, he and three of his teammates went to the mall to get some running shoes. They got stopped by the police and were treated like they were druggies. The police had their hands by their guns...when my son went to get his insurance and registration from the glove box a plastic ziplock bag fell out (it was used for his crabbing license) and the officer said in a harsh tone, "what's the baggie for"? They continued to make snide remarks which I honestly don't remember now...but that baggie remark was ridiculous. When my son got back to school, he went straight to the track coach...he was scared to death. He called me after school. I called the police who just happened to be in the same town I worked in and I knew many of them.....the officer who had stopped them stopped by my job and in the middle of our discussion he made a remark, "you know how those kids are at _______ school". I was floored...he had clearly profiled them and was actually admitting it. I told him that my son went to _____________ private school for his first three years and that he had chosen this public school for senior year AND that many of the kids in the private school were more of a problem than his friends on the track team at the public school. He did sort of agree with me that it was not fair to judge like that...but the fact remained that YES he did and I could only hope he had learned. That night I had a lengthy discussion with my son about being extremely careful when he was with his friends...it made me sick to my stomach to have that discussion because they were a great group of kids and he is friends with them to this day......, but the fact is there IS racism and it can be dangerous.... and yes it cuts both ways...but SO many people so totally deny it. That is exactly what it is, denial. |
I don't understand, Ladyjane, made what happened to your son and his friends racist?