It Is The Issue That Works Corruption of Blood

In our cherished Constitution, it says that the charge of Treason should not work corruption of blood; perhaps, it should have also said the same about the vestiges of racism. If I may borrow and take poetic license and paraphrased lines from one of the my favorite movies of all time, The Usual Suspects,"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled off is convincing Black Americans in the North East or The West that racism is only a product of the Dixie South." We all are now acutely aware of the recent racial profiling case which happened to the renown Black Harvard Professor Louis Gates in Massachusetts. It is ironic to me that every time the NAACP survey comes out as for the most racist places for blacks to live, Massachusetts always made the top five, notwithstanding that the state is a bastion of Liberalism, and moreover, the stronghold of the Kennedy's. Those of us who have had similar experiences, be it from the officer’s point of view or that of Professor Gates, can make an educated guess what happened. To the officer who should have known better, supposedly, because he is trained for such eventualities, should have simply walked away. This situation was probably akin to having an argument with a flamboyant gay-everyman worth his "street cred," knows not to argue with a flamboyant gay guy in public because he is going to say something to threaten your manhood, and, you in turn, will want to resort to actions you consider to be macho, exacerbating the situation. Professor Gates must have said something which cause a rise out of the officer, but the fact that Gates was in his home and knowing the history of the state vis-a-vis race relations, the officer should have de-escalated the situation by walking away. The tougher question to us is how are we going to address racial profiling, especially if the stats show that certain ethnic groups are prone to commit certain crimes. Said stats may show that blacks are prone to commit robberies, murders, and slinging drugs; or that Muslims are prone to carry out terrorist acts; or that white men are more likely to engage in pedophilia and serial murder. All of us who are part of any of those ethnic groups implicated by the stats would be outraged if we were to be caught up in an investigation simply based on the stats and race--but that is the reality. Imagine, that you are a White father enjoying a day in the park with your daughter, and an officer came up and ask your daughter if she is being molested by you-think of your outrage; now, imagine an upstanding Black man being accosted simply because he was driving a Cadillac or find himself in an area deemed a white neighborhood....To paraphrase the Apostle Paul, do not be boastful in saying that you cannot engage in this or that behavior, but pray that God does not allowed evil to come into you to engage in robberies, murders, or pedophilia.
-Verily Prime