THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

RACIAL PROFILING IS THE FAULT OF BLACK CRIMINALS | 1999-07-17

The trendy new liberal cause is "profiling." The evil "profiling" approach involves policemen using this kind of logic: "I see a young black man driving slowly around an affluent neighborhood at 2 am. I think I should stop him and check him out to protect the public."

This is unfair to an innocent young black who just HAPPENS to be driving slowly at 2 in the morning. What liberals ignore is the REASON the unfortunate young black man looks suspicious. The REASON this black man is being stopped is not because there is a plot against him. Police consider him a possible danger to the public because there are OTHER young black men who are killing, robbing, raping, and maiming people.

Liberals blame everybody -- police, Society, whites -- for this young black man's problem. Everybody, that is, except those who are responsible. That young black man is being stopped because of his fellow blacks who are committing all those crimes.

It doesn't bother liberals, of course, but the killing, raping, and maiming of honest people is something we want stopped. As long as black criminals are doing most of the killing and maiming and raping, honest blacks are going to be harassed.

Let's blame the criminals for a change.