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Old 07-28-2009, 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by dellinger63
Believe it or not in some neighborhoods in Chicago especially at night you would be pulled over for being white. When a kid is walking down the street in 90 degree weather wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a baseball hat sideways maybe he gets searched because what he is wearing not becuase of what color he is? Of course much easier to blame the cop for beng racist than suspicious the kid is concealing a gun and is on his way to 'do up' someone.
If you are wearing gang colors, yeah, you tend to get searched. And it has nothing to do with the color of your skin.
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