Reply #3: Do you honestly beleive... [View All]

...that merely by being White, you could go off on a police officer and get away with it?

Here's a test:

Providing you're White, of course...

Start doing a brake job on your classic car in your driveway, in work clothes... a neighbor who is used to seeing you in a suit and tie and carrying an attache case, calls 911 to report that somebody is in your driveway, messing with your car (let's just say you have a '67 Jaguar E-Type..sigh..) and that they don't recognize who it is.

The police pull up and ask you for ID, and to step away from the car... You're irritated, because you can't get the calipers apart on one of the disk brakes, you're tired, and you're running late... you tell the cop(s) that it's your car; you're dirty and you're wallet is in your house... then you go back to what you were doing, dismissing the police officer sent to investigate...

If you want, make it a Black officer, or better yet, a Black Female officer.

She insists you show her identification. You, being an attorney, or some other self-important professional, have a built-in distaste for the working class cop, and you probably make three times what they make in a year, plus you've been published in important papers, and you are highly pissed that some low-life nobody is interfering with you. You might feel uncomfortable with a Black person anyway, as many Blacks are uncomfortable with White people, (Big surprise there, right?) and you might have the worldview that, bottomline, Blacks are always looking for a chance to bag Whitey.

So, you tell the cop that you want her badge number and right now. She asks you calm down and step back from the car. You tell her that perhaps she should get her mother to step away from the car and this is what happens when Blacks get some power and a gun. Except, of course, you're yelling all of this in a loud voice, to insure that your neighbors hear it.

But, of course, merely by being White, the Black Female Officer backs down with a hasty 'Yassuh' and you go back to your business.

Do you really think that's how it works? I submit that you would soon find yourself testing the newest Tazer that your local police department had just gotten in, when you were foolish enough to turn your back on somebody doing their job with an entitlement to respect.

Of course, there would be posts on here saying that the smart-ass got what he deserved; any idiot knows that you don't fuck with the police when they're doing their thing, no matter who you are.

Unless of course, you're drunk or stoned.

Gates was either a smug, self-important fool, perhaps drunk or stoned, or this whole thing was a set up to show that even now in America, with an Black President, it's a White world after all. It backfired. This wasn't a Rosa Parks moment, okay?

You people who keep pushing this garbage disgust me.