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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Quit it with the calls for racial profiling, already

I saw a lot of "it's stupid to check old white ladies, police should target young Middle Eastern men blah blah blah" comments (and even a cartoon) when I was doing research about the innocent Brazilian man shot and killed by British police. Those kind of idiotic calls are getting louder, and now this stupid Brooklyn (Democratic) assemblyman is asking police to target young Middle Eastern men. TalkLeft explains why this is both racist and ineffective.

posted by Mikhaela at 9:54 AM   

1 Comments:

Elayne said...

Of course it's racist. Hikind has long been known as an Arab-hating fundamentalist "super-Jew" (I believe he's Lubavitcher) from a neighborhood of same. There but for some brains in my head go I...

9:26 AM  

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