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Racial Profiling
By Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry (ret'd)
CurryforAmerica.com
One hot summer’s day in Georgia I was standing on the sidewalk in front
of
With my training it would have taken me less than a minute to permanently take him out, but I would have ended up in prison. And while the thought of vengeance was sweet, the penalty was so bitter that I just clenched my teeth, shut my mouth and walked away from him.
Three weeks later I stood on the same sidewalk and watched a bus pull away with that same white classmate on it; he waved to me and I waved back. He had been kicked out of the school for academic deficiencies. I stayed on, graduated, and rose through the ranks to become a Major General before retiring.
As a black American, back in the days before civil rights laws were
passed and before Obama was even born, the least of my problems was “Racial
Profiling.” In fact, I would have welcomed a little racial profiling in
place of many of the indignities my family and I had to suffer. So please
forgive me if I don’t seem overly sympathetic about “suspected” illegal
immigrants in
Supposedly being asked to show legal identification papers strikes fear
into the heart of the immigrant community. The immigrants I know, including
those from
The President of the
Unfortunately if the U.S. Congress and President Obama were doing their
jobs properly they would have addressed and solved the problem of illegal
immigration -- since it is a federal problem -- and the state of
No doubt many who are asked to show identification papers will turn out
to be legal residents of the state of
If showing papers to establish legality in the nation or state offends
or angers someone, then so be it. That’s far safer than a suspicious person,
who was never stopped because the Highway Patrolman didn’t want to give
offense, later going on to detonate a car bomb in downtown
I agree with Clarence W. Dupnik the sheriff of Pima County Tucson, Arizona, “What we need is assistance from the federal government in the form of effective strategies to secure the border. Additionally, the federal government must take up this issue in the form of comprehensive immigration reform policy.” To put it bluntly, our southern border is out of control and our President refuses to get it back under control.
It’s time for President Obama and the U.S. Congress to show some real
leadership by getting control of our borders and the illegal immigrant
problem. The fear of offending illegal immigrants by racial profiling -- at
the expense of America’s security -- is nothing short of dangerously
misplaced political correctness, mixed in with a great deal of stupidity.