Saturday, October 17, 2009

Musings on--stuff white people do: ask black men wearing dreads for weed

Just read: stuff white people do: ask black men wearing dreads for weed

If I were Seattle Police, I would have a cop permanently "under cover" with dreads. All you have to do to make a bust is walk around with dreadlocks and occasionally say "you want me to sell you marijuana?" Sounds too good to pass up.

Question: would this help or hinder racial equality? I mean, it would eventually fix the symptom of black men being harassed for weed but it wouldn't do much to address the underlying assumptions.