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An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be '''Smart''' to Racially Profile Her Own Son
Holy. ****ing. Christ!!!
I can hear her in 10 years writing him as he goes out into the world, "My little brown man, we adopted you to show how we weren't racist knowing you're likely to be a criminal but we needed the "look." Good luck not getting gunned down by a cop but you had it coming. Love, Mom (not really your mom). P.S. Thanks for being our cover child. PP.SS. Don't call us, we'll call you. "
“Statistically, I look at our prison population and I see that there is a disproportionately high number of African-American males in our prison population for crimes, particularly for violent crimes. So statistically, when a police officer sees a brown man like my Jude walking down the road — as opposed to my white nerdy kids, my white nerdy men walking down the road — because of the statistics that he knows in his head, that these police officers know in their head, they’re going to know that statistically my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.
So the fact that in his head, he would be more careful around my brown son than my white son, that doesn’t actually make me angry. That makes that police officer smart, because of statistics.””
Holy. ****ing. Christ!!!
I can hear her in 10 years writing him as he goes out into the world, "My little brown man, we adopted you to show how we weren't racist knowing you're likely to be a criminal but we needed the "look." Good luck not getting gunned down by a cop but you had it coming. Love, Mom (not really your mom). P.S. Thanks for being our cover child. PP.SS. Don't call us, we'll call you. "