What's The Problem Officer ?

[Bazile]

Was this gentleman just naive as to what occurs away from the
leafy suburbs, protected by relative wealth and privilege ?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293635/A-middle-class-black-man-raised-white-parents-Ben-respected-police-Until-night-stopped-car-.html?ICO=most_read_module

[Mick-Talbot]

Well , I'm here now.................


I'm thinking it is very possible that the copper was having an off day. Maybe he left home after arguing with her indoors and decided someone was going to get some .......'Do you know who I am?'

It happens, it has happened to me, a white male. Where do I go to tell my story?

Life is so unfair sometimes!

[boxtops]

I don't know about naive, but I had a friend who is a professional medical man, and is Pakistani. In younger years he too drove a high end black car, and was regularly stopped by police clearly "wondering" how he came by the car (it was a company car, as it happened). I was with him a few years back when it happened, and it told me it was a frequent occurrence. Big black car, coloured person = suspicious, in certain people's mind.

[emmie]

the man in question works for the Mail

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1225240.html

[Bazile]

so when he said , '' a bloke like you ''

'I don't think you heard me right, mate. I asked if this was your car? It's a very nice car for a bloke like you to be driving, isn't it? Now I'm going to repeat the question, to be absolutely clear, and think hard before you answer me: Is. This. Your. Car?'

What's the liklehood that he was referring to the colour of the skin of the bloke he had stopped ?

[emmie]

did you look at the link i provided.......AOG...

[Baldric]

mentioned here

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1225240.html

[Bazile]

I didn't even realise that AOG had posted on this

[Baldric]

He posts everything!
;o)

[sp1814]

Bazile

How would you interpret "a bloke like you"?

What does that even mean?

Do you think the policeman was being professional?

[Mick-Talbot]

And he remembered everything word for word did he?

As baz said on the other thread .....anecdotal, It's not worth getting hot under the collar about, never mind column inches.

[emmie]

as said, he works for the DM apparently.......

[sp1814]

M-T

But all opinion pieces are by definition anecdotal.

It doesn't mean that he shouldn't tell the story.

[craft1948]

I must have been naive too as I'd dismissed all the stories of young black men being stopped for no reason at all. That is until a young black colleague from work gave me a lift in his very nice BMW in 1989. We were stopped twice between The Elephant and Castle and Ashford, for no reason whatsoever............

[Bazile]

sp1814

//How would you interpret "a bloke like you"? //

Well if the bloke was wearing oxford bags / platform shoes and earings hanging from all over his face , the i would interpret it another way , from the liklehood of what he meant :-)

[Mick-Talbot]

A middle-class black man raised by white parents, Ben had always respected the police. Until one night they stopped his car...
By BEN DOUGLAS


So because of one officer he no longer respects the police?

I've been punched for no reason by a black man............should I therefore lose all respect for all black men?

[AllThatGlitters]

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[AllThatGlitters]

Please note that this man writes these attention seeking articles regularly. His theme is that he is middle-class and raised by white parents and therefore he takes umbrage with any body who implies that he is black.

[FredPuli43]

ATG, but the man is black, as you can see. He writes the articles as a black man; that's the whole point. How can he take umbrage at anyone who thinks he is black ? That's nonsense.

What he takes umbrage at is the assumption that a black man in a good car must be a criminal. But worse, that he was treated as one. He assumes that a white man would not be treated that way. He is almost certainly right; he might be so treated if he was white, very young, and driving such a car.

[ludwig]

For 30 years I thought the police were all marvellous until the one time they stopped me. Now I think they're all racist tw8ts.

Yeah, ok mate. Thanks for the info.

[Orderlimit]

Black Audi's is one the most nicked cars arent they?, usually from domestic burglary