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Essay: "Racial Profiling"by Michael Collier Sure, most of us do it, we see a certain color or hear the way a person speaks English as a second language and automatically put them in a box. A nice safe box that says, okay if you're not my color, you're not my kind. By most of us I mean people of all colors. One thing I've learned in this life is that racism crosses all facets of the color and socio-economic spectrum. Some people hide it and some don't, but whether you do or not you usually think something is wrong with people who don't feel the way you do. Most of us in prisons come from poor working class families. From trailer parks, ghettos, and rent house neighborhoods. You better believe we're all niggers in the eyes of the upper-class. Whatever else you are doesn't matter to them. I don't know whether I find it amusing of not to see men from similar backgrounds with more in common than they will ever admit doing their best to feel like a better person because they were born a certain color or talk a specific way. Really it's pretty disgusting, almost as loathsome as our President saying homosexuals deserve our respect but can we please make a Constitutional amendment to keep them from getting married. Between the George Bushs, Louis Farakhans, David Dukes, Michael Jacksons and other assorted fruits and nuts in our country and around the world it's a fight for reality and common sense. People play the race cared too much, blacks do it, Mexicans do it, and whites do too. What kills me about the whites that scream for white power is that we have white power in this country and all through the West. You don't have to hate anyone to love your people and its history, in fact you can't truly have any love for yourself or anyone else if you have hate in your heart. There's nothing weak about having respect for the next man and it won't hinder your love for the principles of your people. I say this to all men, "Sons of God Brotherhood of Man."
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