Pulled...for being young in a nice car?

Before my brother smashed his car up he was pulled over regularly, had been searched several times, and once made him stand on the driveway with his shoes off and pulled his car apart searching it.

Mum reckons they picked on him.

The fact he drove a black lowered focus, with tinted windows, rude boy exhaust and was slammed and stank of weed and he drove with his hood up had sod all to do with it though :p
 
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Burnsy2023 said:
I can't speak for everyone, but I can say that I have never treated anyone differently because of their race and I don't know any of my colleagues who would either.
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I find the whole thing completely ridiculous. We dont live in 1960's America, why would somebody actually behave differently to somebody simply because of the colour of their skin?

I can't help but wonder if this is something thats massively over-talked about. It seems people like Joshy are convinced they are hassled because of skin colour, why? Perhaps its something else..
 
I think you've got to be incredibility naive to believe that racism/discrimination does not happen outside of the minds and mouths of hardcore right wingers.

Thankfully I haven't had the full racist treatment. I've mentioned before that people have been "knocked back" when I've turned to look at a car and my grammar in Emails and accent and pronunciation on the phone perhaps doesn't match what I look like in person. Not saying that's "racist", but that's what you'd expect in a "multicultural" society.

I have actually spent considerable time in the past convincing people in person that I'm the same bloke off of the internet :p.

[TW]Fox;17785281 said:
Perhaps its something else..
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I always thought this, but until I founding it happening to me I've had to take a step back and ask "What else could it be?". Seriously I'm nice, polite and respectful at all times to just about everyone. I'm far from your typical "rude boi" that you'll find playing the discrimination card every chance he gets, so exactly could this "something else" be?
 
I used to get this in my teens as I drove hot hatches. If it gets silly, like very often, you can go to the police and get something done.
 
Joshy said:
I always thought this, but until I founding it happening to me I've had to take a step back and ask "What else could it be?". Seriously I'm nice, polite and respectful at all times to just about everyone. I'm far from your typical "rude boi" that you'll find playing the discrimination card every chance he gets, so exactly could this "something else" be?
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Looking young and driving a Soarer, which to be quite honest looks about as 'my first drug dealer car' as you could get, without driving a blacked out old E Class? :p
 
Joshy said:
I think you've got to be incredibility naive to believe that racism/discrimination does not happen outside of the minds and mouths of hardcore right wingers.

Thankfully I haven't had the full racist treatment. I've mentioned before that people have been "knocked back" when I've turned to look at a car and my grammar in Emails and accent and pronunciation on the phone perhaps doesn't match what I look like in person. Not saying that's "racist", but that's what you'd expect in a "multicultural" society.

I have actually spent considerable time in the past convincing people in person that I'm the same bloke off of the internet :p.



I always thought this, but until I founding it happening to me I've had to take a step back and ask "What else could it be?". Seriously I'm nice, polite and respectful at all times to just about everyone. I'm far from your typical "rude boi" that you'll find playing the discrimination card every chance he gets, so exactly could this "something else" be?
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How do you explain my friends who never get pulled over then?

If all black/Asian people get pulled over for the sake of it, whats different about my friends?
 
iaind said:
How do you explain my friends who never get pulled over then?

If all black/Asian people get pulled over for the sake of it, whats different about my friends?
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See now there is no answer to that, but if you had spent any time in a ropey area you would have a different opinion.
 
iaind said:
So it's not all black people then, its black people in dodgy areas. What's the third factor, I wonder?
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The car you drive, how you drive it, how loud the music is, what time of night it is, how many people in the car, i really dont know.

And with the utmost respect to Fox's comment above, you live in a different world to these kids mate, just because you as a white middle class fella living in a white middle class area havent experienced it dosent make it non existent.
 
A middle class area? Plymouth is one of the most impoverished cities in the UK!

So now we've gone from people being pulled over ONLY because they are black OR young in a nice car to people being pulled over because they are in really dodgy areas..
 
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So being pulled over because

- young
- black
- dodgy area
- car full of lads
- loud music
- late night

And people keep playing the "just because I'm black" card? It's a pretty pathetic cry of "feel sorry for me, I'm a minority!!!" from the sounds of it
 
No one can win this argument :) Because no one has the numbers, so here is my parting shot, when i drive through south London and count the number of cars by the side of the road talking to plod, more are black than white.
 
How many people driving are black compared to white though :)

I've no doubt it's much more complicated than we can really discuss, I just really resent the view of "it's just because I'm black/fat/ginger/American".... About anything in life. Stop using the things you can't change as an excuse and make your life what you want it
 
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