Portlandfamily.com » racial profiling http://portlandfamily.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:46:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Have you had the what-to-do-when-you’re-stopped-by-the-police talk? http://portlandfamily.com/2010/02/have-you-had-the-what-to-do-when-youre-stopped-by-the-police-talk/ http://portlandfamily.com/2010/02/have-you-had-the-what-to-do-when-youre-stopped-by-the-police-talk/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:37:11 +0000 Mary Rarick http://portlandfamily.com/?p=2715 By Mary Rarick

Have you had the what-to-do-when-you’re-stopped-by-the-police talk with your kids? If not, I’m guessing your kids are white.

The unwarranted shooting of Aaron Campbell has everyone questioning whether or not  race was one of the factors. What most acknowledge, yet few openly admit, is that, sadly, it probably was.

In her article in today’s Oregonian, Nikole Hannah-Jones interviewed Rob Ingram, head of Portland’s Office of Youth Violence Program.

How embarrassing that we live in a society where parents have to explain to their young children that because for no reason other than the color of their skin they will be stopped by the police–it’s not a question of if but when, on average once a week.

What are we going to do about it?

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