An odd tale about double standards and a traffic stop in Parramore, Florida:
Juan Lynum, county-commission candidate with close ties to the mayor was stopped in the wee hours of the morning for driving with a broken headlight. Before the officer had reached his window, the candidate was on the line to his city-commissioner mother Daisy, saying he was being racially profiled. She immediately called the chief of police. No ticket was written.
Not satisfied, both mother and son claimed racial profiling as the reason for his having been pulled over and demanded an apology from the chief of police. When that was not forthcoming, the mother alleged a pattern of abuse and urged her constituents to write letters of complaint if they too had been victimized. She also called for the chief of police's resignation. He refused. In her talks with the media, the mother openly and repeatedly called the officer and other officers on the force a racial slur.
The hardest-hitting opinion piece in the paper called for the son to get his headlight fixed and concentrate on his political campaign. The chief of police was conciliatory, and said the mother didn't owe him the apology his supporters were calling for, but neither did he feel he owed her one. The officer in question was not asked whether he felt he himself was owed an apology.
One TV channel's investigation into the Lynums' charges showed their allegations had no merit and includes a segment wherein one of the commisioner's supporters, an Alvin Giles, gives voice to the latest definition of "racial profiling," which formerly meant being singled out for looking different from those around you. Stopped on the way to church for illegally cutting through a parking lot, Giles said, "I think they pulled me over because I was in a black neighborhood and I was black." Juan Lynum was also a black who stopped in a black neighborhood. Also included: letters from her constituents calling her ignorant.
Now for the exam:
1. True or false: "Black people can't even be racist."
2. Given this latest meaning of "racial profiling," what is the future of law enforcement in black neighborhoods?
All in all, an interesting month in Orlando, a place where nobody even notices a story about a candidate getting a ticket fixed by his politician-mama's calling a police chief at 1:00 a.m.
(Via FR.)
Momma and son sound like bigots waiting to find something to use the race card on to achieve victimhood status, thus evading responsability for their actions.
I thoroughly despise (insert intemperate word here) like that and tend to avoid them or at a minimum when encountered, keep them at a distance for their own safety.
In the context it was used, "white boy" was a racial slur.
I had a situation where a white student (male)provoked a black student (female). The boy was indignant about the girl's lack of intimidation, so he called her a racial slur, then she called him a white cracker.(5th graders)
The boy was white, attractive, smart, affluent, and had parents that were in the principal's office to bail him out of every reoccuring problem.
Get the picture?
The girl on the other hand, was unattractive (very large and one lazy eye), poor, black, parentless( mom died a crack-head and her dad was in prison),but she was honest and a reliable and dependent student.
His provocation and then the slur because he was a little wussy, sickened me. I was indignant and in pain for her. He wouldn't loose any sleep over the white boy crack, but his remark would stick to her forever.
To make a long story short, I wrote him up. The parents raise hell over the white cracker remark.
My principal agreed, and they both had a day out of school. Unbelievable, but calling someone a white cracker is considered a put down when used that way.
I say, my girl should have called him certain other things and gotten more bang for her trouble.
This lady needed the white boy remark to imply prejudice for the stop, but all she did was show her true colors.
I kept looking to see if anyone was going to say something about a political candidate getting a ticket fixed, but it was a total non-issue. She used political influence to bend the law to her will and it still wasn't enough. As for Juan, what a scummy little mama's boy. And a moron if he can't tell when he's driving at night that he's got a headlight out.
Posted by: Donnah at June 30, 2006 01:07 PMYou couldn't pay me enough to be a cop or a teacher (ref: nancy's post) simply because you run up against this kind of crap all too often. Anytime you call a man a boy in the context of a disagreement, it is a sign of disrespect. Anytime you call your mommy to fix your problems for you, you bring your own manhood into question.
Posted by: tfhr at June 30, 2006 05:31 PM