Ifill writes: ""We shouldn't need celebrities to bring home the seriousness of racial profiling. The pain, humiliation and injustice experienced by average, poor, black men and women should be a compelling enough story to hold our attention."
And Ford comments: "The president got it right: There's no plausible justification for the arrest. It was worse than stupid--it was abusive."
"And even racial profiling in the sense of using race as a part of a generic composite of a typical crimnal isn't necessarily racist. It's a tragic fact that blacks as a group commit a disproportionate number of certain types of crime. The trouble is that racial profiling--even if it's based on accurate generalizations--imposes a disproportionate share of the costs of law enforcement on innocent blacks, like professor Gates. Let's face it: It's hard to imagine that police would have presumed that a middle-aged white man who walks with a cane was a burglar."
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