This must be an American thing, because I'm white and places won't rent to me precisely because of the color of my skin.

Yeah, in the US it depends on the state, too. The deep south is most well known for it, and the laws there don't restrict it:

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VT, NH, and ME should be exempt. Only crackers live there. I stayed with a friend in Bangor, Maine for a week and didn't see one person who wasn't white.

North wins the war and all the black people stay south as a big **** you. :D

Wow, are you ever naive.

Yes, you certainly can be incarcerated without a grand jury or a trial. If you then go to trial and are found guilty, the judge will usually mark off your time that you already served but he doesn't have to.

In the McMartin Preschool school case, one of the accused served 5 years in a sexual offenders wing of a penitentiary (because he was deemed as too dangerous to be free) before he ever went to trial only to be acquitted from lack of evidence.

In another case, a guy was arrested by the DEA over a pot bust, was locked in a holding cell and left there for 5 days without food or water.

I'd suggest you educate yourself about this "judicial system" because you're going to get quite a surprise.

Those're two different things. Racial profiling by the police doesn't have to do with refusing business based on race. Besides, the latter is considered unconstitutional, so you can't do that ANYWHERE.

Who brought up refusing business?

Oh, mordwyr did. I guess I was responding in the context of the OP.

In Japan, they laugh at the notion of racial discrimination. "Of course we don't rent to you -- you're not Japanese! Silly foreigners." And we're expected to get it.

And, you know what? I do. It doesn't bother me a bit being discriminated against because of the color of my skin. I'm doing just fine on my own.

Ain't that the truth.

Exactly.

This is what I was referring to when I said the protocol was not done right.


Usually once someone is charged, they get a warrant for their arrest and once arrested, they go straight to jail until they get bail.

This was not the case for that police officer. The family of Michael Brown wanted to charged the police officer but the police department/city would not allowed it. "They wanted more evidence"

He shot that boy 6 six times!! They have a video tape of the incident and multiple witnesses said that the boy surrendered and the cop still shot him anyway, what more evidence is needed? Here it is November and that cop is still not charged?


Damn shame.