Thursday, November 15, 2007

by any other name

There's so much wrong with this video. OK, so the police were given a description of a serial rapist. "Hispanic" was the term used, now this radio station KMYL 1190 AM, is pissed off because the term is not very descriptive. They say that it is racial profiling, yet they claim that hispanic is an ethnicity. They didn't say it was ethnic profiling, which would make more sense, it's racial profiling... Still, my gripe isn't the whole ethnic v racial profiling. My problem is that on the show, to defend the police's stance was a former homicide detective. While he was ranting on about "...it wasn't a black male, or a Chinese male with his eyes like this..." as he says "Chinese male" he pushes his eyes back to slant them. Well if that isn't racist then I don't know what is.
I had a tough time finding the story on the web, apparently it isn't a big issue even down in Arizona. Good, because it's about finding a serial rapist, not a serial racist.

Hehe. Yeah, I just thought that up.

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