Prejudices vs. Racism

[b4uqzme]

Male, white, 50's and I've been carting my mother-in-law's trash to the dumpster for 25+ years. They have a business 15 minutes away and it irks her to have to pay for home pickup when those big dumpsters are right there.

P.S. I haven't paid for pickup either but I have worn out 3 trucks in the process. Yeah, I know the math doesn't work

[marcinstl]

you be the judge---- here in St.Louis there was a Bosnian guy beaten to death with hammers by black teens. so at 1am. a cop sees a group of black teens walking or loitering, would he be right or wrong in engaging them in conversation, possibly a quick check to see if they had hammers or other weapons? (there seems to be almost weekly reports of teen violence/robberies, "knockout game" type activity in this town). racial profiling is fact based or just the fantasies of racist cops?
(our local PBS station, KETC, has a number of community affairs programs, since the Ferguson thing I've watched parts of a few shows where local blacks and whites have discussed racism in STL, the police, the problems facing the city. if any meetings or discussions got down to the truth about poverty, education, parenting, family planning and the results were turned into programs and actual change began, this city would still be looking at decades of hard work before it was any better/different. this hasn't happened yet because both sides can't talk to themselves or each other and getting to the truth and programs is just a fantasy.) and that's why I carry and practice, practice.