Look at the history,and you will see the facts.The sheriffs department is a digrace to the profession.You wont see this biased racial unbalance in surrounding counties.And dont give me the exuse that no qualified minorities can be found,or have applied.Or that they like to hire pre certified officers to save money,because white men and women get hired with no experience, all expenses paid through the academy.So what do you have to say about that, and be honest?
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No doubt some places r more "opinionated" than others but that's life.  Don't live there if you don't like it.
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Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are some of the biggest racists out there. No if the men were anything but Black Sharpton would not lift a finger for them. The fact is police brutality is a color blind issue. It affects us all and until we stop caring about the "racial" aspect it will not go away. \n\nYes they were Black, at least two of them were. The third man had a last name of Guzman which might suggest he was Hispanic at least in part. \n\nThe second hyprocritical aspect is that these guys from what I understand first hit the mini van full of cops. Ok they might have been drunk and had an accident.  Then they almost ran over a cop backing up and hit the van again.  So one of two situations existed. The driver was either totally wasted and incapable of driving or only intoxicated enough to become aggressive and targeted an ethnic minority that he hated.  If they were so wasted they were incapable of driving then their deaths were sheer bad luck. Were the cops supposed to wait until they killed somebody to stop the car they were driving?  Being that drunk they would have killed somebody else on the road if they had not hit the cop's mini van. If it was an act of aggression then they had likely done this before and may have killed people in the past for random reasons such as skin color. Then it merely becomes ironic that they met their end in the way they did. More of a Darwin award than police brutality. \n\nIn both instances this is not a clear cut police brutality issue unless the twice ramming the mini van is wrong. As such the cry of police brutality is damaged. True cases of police brutality lose credibility. That is the really saddest part of this. These guys were not innocent byestanders gunned down for no reason. They'll be used to discredit real instances of police brutality though.
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Your statement quoted a Councilwoman as saying "black people can not be racist".\n\nThis is a statement of arrogance and overzealous pride.  This is an opinoionated statement, not one based on fact.\n\nAfrican Americans can be racist, however it's a little complicated and all revolves around the definition of the word that is used in context with how it is intended.  In our society, it is called Reverse Racism.  Racism is the act of a majority putting down a minority (any minority...black, brown, red blue, green...you name it us human's have a colorful rainbow name for it, whatever it is)  Where as an African American can not be racist they can be guilty of Reverse Racism...which is a lesser crime in the eyes of the Federal Courts.  "No one really has time for that silly kind of argument", as one federal judge said about 10 years ago.  I happen to believe that racism is racism, let's not candy coat it here.  If it's good one its good for all.--sorry there went my Social political views, how dare I think about Socialism.\n\nNow a "white boy cop" as you refered a quote that was said, that is a definitive example of Reverse Racism, Gender Specific Slander and Job Title Related Slander.  One, it defines the --offender's--ethnic origin...two, boy denotes that male is not a man and therefore unable to properly do his job...three, cop is a derogitory term of police officer.  Cop is slang and is not proper.  While not every officer in America will take offense to the term, there are a select few who will, as they are not cops-they are Trained Police Officials who are employed by the city.  (Police are city, Deputies are county)  If this Councilwoman wishes to continue to be taken seriously by her fellow coworkers, not just the underlings below her that restore order and patrol crime, this Councilwoman needs to realize the error of her words and how she is counter productive to the movement she wishes to  better for the next generation.  If she is a Councilwoman, she is there because she was elected and represents the people of her area, which may or may not include those "white boy cops" as she so eloquently put it.\n\nThis Councilwoman needs to seriously take a look at what it is she is doing and why.  Please do me a favor and post some sort of contact for this Councilwoman's office and the local News Paper for this Councilwoman's area so that I might write her office a letter of complaint.  The squeaky wheel always gets the oil first before the quiet ones.\n\nAnd to state a response to another posters "very strange" report.  It is not very strange for an Officer to do their job, even if it means doing their job at 2 am.  If a vehicle is not in proper street condition, by that I mean legal so that it would pass an inspection, then the officer has the right to pull the offender over, state the nature of his involvement and has the ability and jurisdiction to give a ticket for the offense.  A single headlight on a vehicle that requires two by model specification is an infraction of the street legal law.and gives the Officer the jurisdiction and opportunity to pull a malfunctioning vehicle over.  It does not matter how the Officer saw the single headlight, it matters that it was seen.  Had the Officer seen the single headlight and not pulled the vehicle over, the Police Officer would be guilty of not properly doing his job.
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In respect to the ban on affirmative action, many leaders in the minority community support this.  They believe it hurts schools and businesses as they are forced have to meet quotas of minorites in their employment, not getting the best candidates based on merit.    \n\nSo if you have to have 10 spots open and you need 8 minorities, you hire the people based on the quota's you have to meet, not choosing the best who applied.  You are just filling spots.  You can't hire a white man because you need one more woman or mexican person to comply with the law or face fines.   Or you don't hire a black woman with an MBA because you have your quota of blacks, so you hire a white woman with an associates degree.   Discrimination is discrimination and it works both ways.  \n\nAs for the school funding initiative, where is the funding going to come from?  The state would of had to fund minimum requirements of 565 million per year.  With this state losing so many jobs and the lottery obviously not covering education funding, what are they going to get the money to fund the shortfall?   You can't just print money!  So will there be an increase in taxes for gas, cigarettes, sales, businesses, or property in the future?  Increase DMV fees, tags, start toll roads, \nwhatever they can?  \n\nMichigan is at 7.1% unemployment whereas the nation is at 4.4%.  We citizens cannot afford to spend more to fund a mis-managed government.
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anyone would be here !!!!!!!!\n\nwell i have three links one of them has the race population in jail which clearly shows an  increase in the lattest years of immiantes from the white race which has surpassed the black population today :\n\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/jailracetab.htm\n\nthe second one is about the hate crimes commited agains hispanics which indicate huge numbers :\n\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/hcrvp.htm\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/hcrvp.pdf\n\nand i have a tird one is about crimes commited against hispanics which indicates two things that it luckily has drop and that unfortunelly : \n\n*  9% of Hispanic victims stated that\nthe offender was an intimate, while\n34% described the offender as a\nfriend or acquaintance. \n\nmeaning that most of the time the criminal knows the victim and knows how likely the victim is to report the crime :\n\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/hvvc00.htm\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/hvvc00.txt\n\nnote : most people do not seem to release that :\n1.\n as u said the crimes which are commited by those undesirables are commited against victims which cannot defend themselves usually or are afraid of doing so . \n\n2. \n than a legalization would make the real criminals think twice before commiting any crimes against them . therefor the crime rate would drop and the real criminals would be easier to capture once they are nto able to hide between those whose only desire is to work and to better their lives by doing so ( not by commiting crimes and abusing others ) .
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I don't know what to think about the whole thing anymore...I've seen very little facts, just a lot of biased or opinionated stuff.  Newspapers, the media its all biased.\n\nanyways in regards to your question...Some people don't think that way because the majority of people in the US are white. Could you pick a European out of a crowd in New York? (accent or language aside) I know I couldn't. So most people don't really notice. Anyways its still not fair...and I hate to think that they're probably some people of color that are legal and getting asked by stupid people for their green card or something.
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Your question drew me.What made you think of Mr Byrd and racism. I do not know Jasper well enough to call it a racist town.Racism does exist all over Texas.The worst area I have seen is Dallas.By the I way am Mexican-American.I am  a retired police officer living in Orange,Tx.Yes, there is white racism here.\nI can read your reply under your question.
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It is a shame. Uncover policemen who admit to having at least 2 drinks overhear what may have been a joke until investigation is complete we do not know. If anyone outside of a strip club in bad neighborhood wearing regular clothes pointed a gun at me, I would try to get away from gunmen. I doubt I would ever see the badge. The 2nd officer is my only problem, the police said he shot 31 times which means he stopped, reloaded & started to shoot again. I am waiting for results of investigation but so far the police explanation sounds bad for them.\nWe must allow the police to defend itself but not to continue shooting a groom or anyone else. Drinking on job whether uncover or not in unacceptable. I am a white 51 yr old woman, so no it is not a race or gender issue issue for me.
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The worst message America can give black and Hispanic students is not expecting them to measure up to the rest of America, Linda Chavez said. "Affirmative action is feeding them this devastating and racist message."\n\nRemember that Chavez was instrumental in AA's beginnings.\n\nI used to think I agreed with her entirely, but now I have a slightly different opinion. I'm not racist but I know that if I had been given a "leg up" in my formative years then I would be thinking in the back of my mind that I cheated somehow.\n\nHowever, I still witness (through documentaries and social commentary) the fact that so many minority kids are still being held back by their circumstances and they have almost nothing in the way of a way out of their predicament. It's these kids who should be given the assistance and the scholarships.\n\nI was heartened to read an article about six Hispanic High School kids who had beaten Harvard under-grads and other privileged kids in an underwater vehicle engineering contest. It was sad that they were held back from college admittance by their status within the state. That seems so cruel that these bright minds have to settle for Hig School graduation and the possibility of working in low-paying blue collar jobs. Their skills were definitely worthy of being allowed to blossom.\n\nI think that Affirmative Action's time is over, and something different needs to replace it that is aimed at kids like these. Believe it or not, there are inequalities within minorities too.
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Yes, they are making it worse, but they do not really care about ending racism.  For a lot of people, playing the race card is the way to get ahead because they are too lazy or too stupid to do it the hard way - working for it.  If racism were to truly end, then there would be no more NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People) would have to be allowed, and some do not want either, because it would not benefit them.  If all racism were to end, then those not qualified for jobs would not get hired just to fill quotas.
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AMEN! \n\nI am sick of special programs for minorities. Where is the scholarship for the white boy who grew up poor? Certainly he has a much harder time in life than any rich minority.\n\nIf people want to be treated as equals, then they must eliminate the programs that allow them special privileges. Until I see minorities protesting against hiring quotas, hate crime laws, and other such racist things, they will not be seen as "equals". The government has many laws telling me that they are not equal to others, so how can I argue that point?
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so if the program was completely filled with only indians, would you find this discrimination against other races? what if it was only white people, would it make a difference? my best guess at quota systems is that they are designed to prevent racial monopoly. ie all white schools have to let in other racial groups. the whole thing is racism regardless of fairness. no race should create a monopoly in any resource and then block out other races from having equal oppurtunity.  maybe this is not happening in your situation, then im sorry if your being discriminated against
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Again, this is one of those dumb questions, but everyone has their own answers.  I think that this one might get some ANSWERS, like you did. It shows that people think the southern states are full of dirty redneck, hillbilly,pipe-smokin', sittin on the front porch, doing nothing but keepin the women barefoot and pregnant in the kithen, cookin up supper, that was caught by the men folk, so they can sit and drink their moonshine.  But, I guess it is no different than the big city people are considered to be killers next door as your neighbor, no street safe to walk down because the drive by shootings by people who probably does not work, but thinks they rule a territory, probably owned by their parents. And, a good job, is standing on the corner,lol. We all have answers.  But, hey, I've try not to judge a person by the way they part their hair, their size, or the color of their skin, because I know I'm not perfect, I don't want to judges seat.
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I think this one is very good.. We had a huge debate on this one in 1 of my college classes,\n\nSpotsylvania county VA prostitution and dirty cop tactics.. \n\n\nSPOTSYLVANIA, Va. - The sheriff said Friday he will no longer allow detectives to receive sexual services while investigating suspected prostitution after they spent $1,200 at massage parlors last month and sparked a public outcry. \n\nSpotsylvania County Sheriff Howard Smith defended the practice as necessary to obtain a conviction but told his department he was suspending it.\n\n"As sheriff, I understand the feelings and concerns the citizens of this county have expressed," Smith said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Friday. "And I empathize with those feelings. Because of the public's express response, I have suspended this practice."\n\nCourt documents show that four times last month, county detectives allowed women at Moon Spa to perform sex acts on them — once leaving a $350 tip. A total of $1,200 was spent during the visits, Smith said. He said multiple visits were necessary so detectives could build trust with the operators.\n\nDetectives shut down Moon Spa last month. The two suspected operators and three women accused of working there face several charges, including prostitution and sodomy, Smith said.\n\nSmith maintained the sexual contact was necessary to obtain a conviction. But law enforcement officials say undercover officers only need to get an offer of sex for money to move the case forward.\n\nThe practice has been used in Spotsylvania since at least 2003.\n\nEarlier this week, Smith told The Washington Post that sexual contact is needed during the investigations because most professionals know not to say anything incriminating. And conversation is difficult, he said, because masseuses at the Asian-run parlors in the northern Virginia county speak little English.\n\nBut several members of Spotsylvania's Board of Supervisors have spoken out against the methods used in the investigation.\n\n"All of us ... have been worried about this episode tarnishing the county and making us a laughingstock of the nation," board chairman Henry "Hap" Connors told the AP Friday. "That's why I came out early on and asked the sheriff to cease using these tactics."\n\nSpotsylvania Commonwealth's Attorney William Neely said he respects Smith's decision to end the practice, but refused to apologize for the officers'
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That is old fashioned thinking on their part.  Now I believe its an insult to those who have worked hard to overcome any racial bias.  I think its racist on the Liberals part for thinking that race should still be a factor.
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This is the reason I fear and lothe the police,I actually hate them and fear for my safety more and more ,and I am a 40 yr old white male . What must it be like for young women (cute girls pulled over to be asked out is NOT NEW) or minorities who are asked to endure this on a daily basis.Now before you hard line wanna bees shoot yourself in the proverbial foot MY RIGHT WING CREDINTIALS ARE IMPECABLE- member of young repulicans at LSU inBaton Rouge, also member ROTC, 4 yrs ARMY enlisted 6 yrs NATIONAL GUARD ,also was over the road TRUCK DRIVER. So I think I am fairly conservative- but this crap has to STOP !! This is why MY VOTE and MY MONEY are going to OBAMA 2008 !!!! To borrow from the 1968 GOLDWATER campaign "IN YOUR HEART ,YOU KNOW HE'S RIGHT!"
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in the past white people have had the edge regardless of their qualifications.  now, however, white people who may be more qualified than their minority competition may be losing out.  it happens and anyone who says it doesnt is wrong.  things should be equal and the government should stop overcompensating for the past.