It's so easy to have White skin and conveniently ignore the suffering that Latinos in Arizona are going to go through, and that People of Color have to go through on a daily basis. It doesn't matter how many People of Color share their experiences of being profiled or harassed for simply looking 'different', because why would cops be racist? Why would they profile when this law prohibits it? Their experiences are simply figments of their imagination, we as White people simply know better than them and they just use the race card to avoid responsibility. White people are the final say on what real racism is, after all, because we must be good people who are objective and impartial. We are White, we are neutral, we are default. We are the flesh coloring crayon, are we not? We elected a Black president, did we not? Post-Racial America is here, wipe away the past and ignore subtle racism that still occurs on a daily basis! We don't wear white hoods or call ourselves Grand Wizards, and we shun those people from society! And cops are good people who always follow the righteous morals and laws - they are divine robots incapable of human shortcomings, prejudice, malice, and hate.
Ignore the lone White person who still drops the N bomb, calls Latinos, Middle-Easterners, and Asians derogatory names - he is an individual, he does not speak for all Whites in this blissful post-racial America. But hey, you look Latino in Arizona and you just jaywalked and that's a crime, are you a citizen? Show us your citizenship. Now. Down to the station with you. Oh, you're legal? Our bad, we're just trying to protect you. Oh hey there is another Latino loitering on a corner looking for a job, they must be illegal gotta go.
Ignore the hateful White person and their friends who assault someone for being a different color, or in an interracial relationship. They are individuals, they speak not for us as White people as a whole. But hey, you're a Person of Color and you just assaulted a White person - damn People of Color they're all violent, better walk across the street to avoid them, they'll hold you up and steal your stuff, I know that cause I see it on the news all the time and the news isn't racist at all. Probably do drugs too, cause you're a Person of Color and us White people we don't do drugs, but when we do - individuals, friends!
In the end it's okay though guys - 1.5 million Latinos are now an open field to be subjected to harassment and profiling in Arizona if they jaywalk, have a blinker out, loiter on a street corner, maybe speed a bit, etc. But they're being protected from the reported under five-hundred thousand illegals there. And really, the majority of them are trafficking drugs because that's what the Governor of Arizona said - regardless if the border control actually disputed her claims.
I know we all want to think we've moved past how bad things used to be - and it's true, there is no more slavery anymore, and for the most part segregation has been abolished. But you can see it once you start looking for it, and don't turn a blind eye anymore. Just because the KKK isn't as loud anymore, or other White supremacist groups, doesn't mean it isn't there. You can look on this board for good examples of sweeping generalizations of People of Color, dismissal of their experiences because they must be playing the race card and those things can't really happen anymore, etc.
But racial profiling will happen with this law in Arizona, because cops just as we, regardless of what oaths they've taken, are unfortunately human.
