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Originally posted by UpPinkies
A while ago I heard a black congress man say that he was alway checked for his pin and was stopped if he forgot it. He explained that his white counterparts would forget their pins and where never stopped or questioned.
I want to say it was Jackson Jr., but I could be wrong.
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To me, there are two issues:
1) The wearing or not wearing of the lapel pin does NOT guarantee that someone is who they say they are. I feel that if she was a white male (or even a white female), then the situation would have been handled differently by the officer; I have seen this situation myself too many times to count. This whole hairstyle thing is a red herring, IMHO.
2) Regardless, the officer should not have put his hands on her. If he wanted to detain her, then I am sure that there is a proper procedure to do so. I , too, would have probably acted up if some man put his hands on me, especially to restrain me or placed them in an inappropriate place. He messed with the wrong sista!
Frankly, this situation happens in some form or another every day to most Black folks. To recount one situation that happened to me:
A classmate and I (we are both brown-skinned with locs) were studying in campus library. He needed an internet connection for his laptop and politely asked the young white woman at the next table if there was a hotspot here since she was using her laptop. She nastily replied, "Yes, but its only for students". Considering that my classmate and I were GRADUATE students meant nothing, she just saw two Black folks who may have wandered in off the streets of Baltimore; this particular campus building does not require a student id for access although some do. We were dressed casually like all the other students in sight so her comment was uncalled for.
Anywho, I am not familiar with McKinney's politics or her other behavior but I would side with her on this issue because I have been there.
Oh, yeah, this is is the news at the same time of the incident at Duke. Why can't white men keep their d@$m hands to themselves? Yeah, I said it!