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<p>so a black Law student must be harassed as he walks to his home to the Corner?</p>
<p>I assure you a white law student would not have gotten that treatment.</p>
<p>in the very least they could just have asked him for his info in case they needed him later and let him go. your defence of these officers’ boorish behaviour appalls me.</p>
<p>I’m sorry my silly bioengineering degree isn’t good enough for you…</p>
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<p>Again, if a crime was committed and he fit the profile, then yes he should absolutely be stopped (not “harassed”, and as I’ve said so many times at this point, I’m NOT defending their behavior, right now I’m speaking more generally about profiling)</p>
<p>surely then, you know better. (I am biochemistry, but 50 of my 164 credits so far are in the social sciences.) </p>
<p>your thinking on this matter isn’t very scientific.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind being stopped if they were on the lookout for some asian suspect and if they promptly let me go upon recognising their mistake, but it is obvious that the officers’ behaviour in this matter was motivated by hate, for they recognised their mistake very early into the whole affair.</p>
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<p>I won’t argue with you on that. they acted unprofessionally by giving him THAT much trouble, and who knows, it’s quite possible that their conduct was motivated by race (though let’s not draw unneeded conclusions, campus police are notorious for abusing their power due to their “less respected status”) and it wasn’t necessary (though it also wasn’t a punishable offense) to pursue him like they did. All I’m saying is that I don’t believe they weren’t wrong by stopping him to begin with. i’m really not trying to offend anyone here.</p>
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<p>I point thee to the New England area, most of Europe, Canada, and even Mexico. I’m gonna stop you there about Prop 8 because a few things: 1) the Yes on 8 side lied about LGBTs or distorted reality in pretty much every single ad they aired - so the victory was based on false information. 2) It was 52/48 - hardly a referendum. 3) It’s being overturned in the courts and will in all likelihood make marriage equality legal throughout the US when the Supremes are done with it so… backfire much? </p>
<p>Sunset towns are little towns throughout the south where bad things happen to non-white folks after the sun goes down, hence the name - it comes from the saying “I’d better not see you when the sun goes down.” You know, those tiny inconvienient towns you don’t like to talk about because they make the south look bad.</p>
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<p>And he says USCBioGrad wasn’t his sockpuppet…</p>
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Sorry to be so harsh, but please do S.T.F.U. about that already. for one thing, I don’t/didn’t go to USC (USCB?) and i’m not a grad yet. at least have the courtesy to respond to my posts and quit bringing up this asinine subject.</p>
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<p>That’s funny, I’ve been all over the south and I’ve never heard of a “sunset” town. The fact is, African-Americans here are much more likely to be killed by another African-American than they are to be hurt by a racist white person in a hate crime.</p>
<p>Itachirumon - have you ever lived in the South? It seems like you have a very interesting opinion of Virginia. I’m interested to learn where you developed it.</p>
<p>Minor Correction: I had the name wrong, it’s not a “Sunset” down, it’s a “Sundown” town - slight misappropriation of terms - it can also be KNOWN as a Sunset town though. Apparantly they’ve been a phenom even in the north, Canada and California - something I hadn’t heard. </p>
<p>@6281597 - I don’t need to live somewhere to read quite a bit about it. I’ve seen enough historical and current info about the South to know I sure as hell don’t want to ever be there if I can help it.</p>
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<p>Great generalization. By the same token, one can look at crime stats involving African-Americans and deduce that they sure as hell don’t want to ever be around Black people, if they can help it.</p>
<p>You are no better than the people you criticize most.</p>
<p>^I don’t run from the fact that I’m highly prejudiced against prejudiced people. I loathe racists and bigots of all colors. The south just happens to have a very nasty reputation from the last 200 years they’ve yet to live down - and they make it worse with every law the politicians pass.</p>
<p>Naturally not everyone from the south is a screwed up bigoted psychopath but you folks sure know how to pick 'um politically.</p>
<p>Filipinos from Virginia Beach are pretty hot and smart though. Just saying.</p>
<p>also yes I’m more likely to encounter racism in New York City than in Northern Virginia or Charlottesville or even Richmond.</p>
<p>a curious fact.</p>
<p>Turns out this story was a hoax: [A</a> Law Student Plays the Race Card — and Gets Busted, Big Time Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid - News and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession](<a href=“http://abovethelaw.com/2011/05/a-law-student-plays-the-race-card-and-gets-busted-big-time/]A”>A Law Student Plays the Race Card - And Gets Busted, Big Time - Above the Law)</p>
<p>I’d like to see them try to do that to me without their badges and guns.</p>
<p>Wow. That’s terrible.</p>
<p>Remember how some people suggested the police officers be locked in jail Mao style?</p>