'White Boy' Is No Racial Slur

Orlando Commissioner Daisy Lynum insisted she did nothing wrong when she called a city officer who pulled over her son a "white boy," and continued her crusade against racial profiling Wednesday night, according to a Local 6 News report.

Lynum encouraged people who believe they have been racially profiled to call the Orlando police Chief Michael McCoy as she did when her son, Juan, 30, was pulled over for a broken headlight on his vehicle.

http://www.local6.com/news/9444610/detail.html

 

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hardly racial profiling if his car has a broken headlight.

 

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I don't see the issue. Rather, the connection between the story and the topic title isn't really there. If you're part of the community that lives in fear of being harassed by white cops at any given moment, then yes, one does live under a fearful expectation of unnatural escalation on the part of the empowered. That a city commissioner should consider publicly recordable statements more carefully is a given; but this is the United States of America, where non-whites get killed for such offenses as, say, not having any drugs on them when the cops try to bust them, or following a police officer's instructions. Innocence and compliance, in other words, are dangerous for nonwhites in this country. The simplicity of the case as presented in the topic post and the topic title is deceptive. As far as I can tell, the episode documented is just another example of daily life in America, and people should remember to take their shorts off before putting them through the wringer.

 

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