You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
-Dr. Seuss

Thursday, October 31, 2013

scrambled thoughts on stop and frisk

What makes me better than others? Is it my personal characteristics, my ethnicity, the way I carry myself?...You see I  choose those labels to identfy myself, but if you look from a distance I am no different than you. I am part of the human race. Why then should I be responsible for pin pointing someone as suspicious? I am no God. What is this called? Is it to protect people from the dangerous ones? Is it racial profiling? Humiliating? It angers me that the police is able to do this publically. But Don't we do this in our own head;decide who looks like a good person and who just looks plain sketchy and suspicious? Why not do it in public? And then we back to this repeated phrase more like a cliche...Don't judge a book by its cover. Well too bad...because everybody does anyways. Humans are humans and they should be treated like humans not like some object being analyzed for any type of defect. I read about this on my USA Today applicatstion but if you want more info on this topic search up stop and frisk.