Apparently, this officer does not like interracial couples, so he videotapes himself pepper spraying one of his white neighbors (who has a black wife). http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.p ... ssueNum=55 He was arrested, but they let him out on his own recognizance.
I've got to wonder what crime the officer thought his neighbor had commited on the tape. Malicious spraying of a cigarette butt?
I wish all the bad cops (and politicians) were stupid enough to record themselves breaking a law. It would make life so much easier.
Wow, it still boggles my mind that people will hate other people for what they look like. I never really encountered racism until I moved to Georgia, and even then it was not very prominent. When I moved down here to Statesboro....it is very apparent that a majority of the whites here hate the blacks.
Ignorance doesn't discriminate. There're still racists and bigots of every color...you just have to know where to look.
This cop was black, and from the story, it is the interracial thing that really got on his nerves, which makes it rather odd that he moved to a neighborhood with several interracial couples?
That depends. I have noticed two distinct social classes of black people here in statesboro. Ghetto: They dress like rappers with clothes that don't fit and all the same speech you would hear from a rap cd. Hates the whitey. Preppy: They wear polo shirts and dress like frat boys/girls. They speak like frat kids. Is friends with whitey. 9/10 fit into either of those classes.
Yeah, skin color is such a stupid reason to hate someone. You must look past a persons skin color and get to know them. Only then can you hate them for the person they truely are.
That is almost the same phrase I use. I always say: I don't hate people because of what they look like. I hate them for the horrible person they are.