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Now you're being silly. You seem to think I'm claiming that nobody in the history of American society has EVER made headlines by trespassing on school property - and that's completely ridiculous.So you've never heard of an elementary school getting locked down when an individual is described by authorities as suspicious?
You've never heard of mass e-mails going out to a university student body when a phantom gunman is suspected of lurking?
Would you like me to provide links?
What I did say is that a suspect's "Whiteness" doesn't fit into the criminal profile, in spite of all that's happened, and that Whiteness, in and of itself, does not elevate someone's level of risk, suspicion, or "newsworthiness."
You're the one who added MIDDLE EASTERN to the title. Perhaps you ought to explain why.
People shouldn't have to "walk on eggshells" to avoid racial profiling. If a Black fifteen year old stole a candy bar from a convenience store in Florida within a month of Trayvon Martin's death and somebody tried to make a big deal out of it, would you defend that by saying, "well, uh, they did commit a crime and last I checked the press does have the responsibility to report criminal activity." Get real.
We all see what's going on here.