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Take "white" out of that equation.  White kid hanging out somewhere, covered in tattoos, wife-beater tanktop and pants sagging down around his ass, probably going to be watched with suspicion.  Same goes for a black kid dressed the same way.  Or Latino.

Vice versa, clean-cut, respectable middle-class looking white or black  or Latino person will NOT be looked at with suspicion.[/quote]

Tell that to Forest Whitaker.

(Have you asked your black and Latino friends their opinion about this?)[/quote]

Forest Whitaker was stopped and frisked by some random store employee, out of the hundreds of thousands of store clerks who do business with blacks, whites, Latinos, whoever every single day all across America without incident.  Yet here you are, going ahead and painting the whole world with your broad brush based on the actions of one idiot.  
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Nope. You said "clean-cut, respectable middle-class looking white or black or Latino person will NOT be looked at with suspicion." You didn't say "usually". You didn't say "by most people." You said "will NOT". Clearly this is incorrect.

Plus I doubt it's much consolation to Forest Whitaker that this kind of stuff only happens to him occasionally, rather than constantly. You know how often it has happened to me? Never. Not once in my whole life. Why? Because I'm a clean-cut, respectable middle-class looking white person.

(Have you asked your black and Latino friends their opinion about this yet?)[/quote]

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