Good article.
How 5 young black men see the Trayvon Martin case - 'I am Trayvon Martin' - CSMonitor.com
Lheadry Powell, 25, teacher and coach, Los Angeles and Pomona, Calif.
Lheadry Powell knows what it feels like to be under suspicion, whether he's in his own neighborhood in L.A.'s gang-ridden Watts or 45 miles inland in the college town of Pomona, where he teaches troubled high-schoolers for the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
"You name it
walking, in stores, in my car, in malls, getting ice cream," says Mr. Powell, who grew up in Compton, Calif., and now also coaches high school football. "I'm always being racially profiled by the police or women on the street who give me looks and clutch their purses tighter when they see me coming."
He says police pull him over four or five times a month on average, for "driving while black." Officers "go through my trunk, my glove compartment, look under and behind the seats," he says.
Powell says his parents, like many parents of black boys, gave him the "talk" when he was growing up: how to dress, walk, act, and speak in situations from shopping in stores to being stopped by police.
"They said to be polite. Look people straight in the eyes. Tell them exactly what they want to hear without attitude. Always carry items out of the store in a bag."
To this day, Powell says, he tries to follow all their advice.
THIS IS 100% RIGHT and WHY do you think these stereotypes EXIST?
HERE in Obama's OWN words LEARN how a Black person must ACT !!!
"It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned.
People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and
made no sudden moves.They were more than satisfied.
They were revealed. Such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered
young black man who didn't seem angry all the time."
WHY MUST a Black MAN have an
"effective tactic"?????
The racial composition of the US population as of 2008 was
12.84% African American.
A United States Department of Justice report which surveyed homicide statistics between 1974 and 2004 stated that of the crimes surveyed,
52.2% of the offenders were Black .
Race and crime in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So EVEN though blacks constitute 12% of USA population..
Blacks commit 52% of the crimes!
SO draw your conclusions as the majority of people have when a "black" man wearing a hoodie, sagging pants and hand in his pocket approach...FEAR!!!!