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CopperCicada · M
Despite what the alt-right's say, I'm white AF. I used to have long hair down my back, a big beard. I dressed grunge. Flannel, some t-shirt, jeans. I was poor AF too. So I looked like shit.
I got profiled all the fucking time. Long hair walking across a college campus at 4AM-- must be holding, frisk him down. Same next night. Next night.
I got profiled driving through rural Florida and Georgia. Pull the long hair over. Search his car. Same on the way back, or same on the same highway after we passed through and stopped at a larger town.
I got held in suspicion of a crime. Face down on the ground, middle of the night, in the rain, cuffed. Yea. Latino suspect. Yea. that's me. But a longhair in the vicinity. Hold him, run his ID, search him. A pretext, go fishing. See if you can get something on the longhair. Lagniappe if there is.
Sure. One can say the system worked, I wasn't deprived any liberties or freedoms. Sure, legit.
[i]But you know, cut my hair off and start walking around with a #3 cut and business casual-- all that stopped.[/i] I get pulled over for going a little fast, or making a U-turn in the wrong place-- I don't even get a ticket, much less searched and held. I can walk any damn place at any hour and nobody cares. Drive all through the sticks-- no problem. No problem anywhere.
And just based on that, my own personal experience just cutting my hair-- [i]I'm supposed to believe that black people aren't profiled?[/i]
I got profiled all the fucking time. Long hair walking across a college campus at 4AM-- must be holding, frisk him down. Same next night. Next night.
I got profiled driving through rural Florida and Georgia. Pull the long hair over. Search his car. Same on the way back, or same on the same highway after we passed through and stopped at a larger town.
I got held in suspicion of a crime. Face down on the ground, middle of the night, in the rain, cuffed. Yea. Latino suspect. Yea. that's me. But a longhair in the vicinity. Hold him, run his ID, search him. A pretext, go fishing. See if you can get something on the longhair. Lagniappe if there is.
Sure. One can say the system worked, I wasn't deprived any liberties or freedoms. Sure, legit.
[i]But you know, cut my hair off and start walking around with a #3 cut and business casual-- all that stopped.[/i] I get pulled over for going a little fast, or making a U-turn in the wrong place-- I don't even get a ticket, much less searched and held. I can walk any damn place at any hour and nobody cares. Drive all through the sticks-- no problem. No problem anywhere.
And just based on that, my own personal experience just cutting my hair-- [i]I'm supposed to believe that black people aren't profiled?[/i]