Comments on: MC Hammer Arrested, Blasts Cop For Alleged Racial Profiling

By: Kobe's Game Face

Kobe's Game Face — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:03:00 +0000

Hello Ms. Rose. No one black person speaks for all of us (despite how the media trots out the usual names whenever anything race related occurs). And even if one did, it most certainly would NOT be MC Hammer ;) He spoke about how HE feels about his run in, but that opinion does NOT suggest that ALL black people agree with him. And as for President Obama, having a minority as president is great progress for America, but it certainly does not mean that racism no longer exists. The fact that YOU are not a racist and would never behave that way, does not mean there are people who are, and who would (and do). If “all you ever hear” from black people is that white people are racist, may I politely suggest that you find some different black people to associate with. I think you will find that majority of us are civil, reasonable people of diverse backgrounds, experiences and thought. Just like you and anyone else. I hope your heart and mind will remain open to that reality.

By: Jaded28

Jaded28 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:16:00 +0000

I have to disagree and I think the fact that you are using something that happened 200 years ago to propagate your racism against white people is just about the most ignorant thing ever.
People like you are the reason that racism continues. I have never in my life used the fact that my great great great grandparents were slaves as a reason to hate someone who not only had nothing to do with it, but is multi-generations away from it. I mean come on. You’re telling me that in 2013 you are still worried about a “white master” coming to… do what take your cell phone or lap top away?
Black people are just as, if not more racist than white people. Don’t even get me started on how much they hate each other just for being various shades of black. Or how about how many black people are against gay marriage. Which I’ll never understand. How does a minority actively work to thwart the happiness of another oppressed group? It’s the pinnacle of hubris and arrogance.
Hate and fear is not genetic. It’s learned. Unlearn it and you get to have a happy life. Hell, I don’t bother to hold on to ignorant things people have said or done to me last week. I’m certainly not holding on to something that never happened to me.
Of course I know your response already because I’ve heard it a million times, and I still don’t hate you for it. I pity you. You are going to say I’m a sell out, I don’t know how to act my color, and I have it easy being “light skinned”. I have it easy because rather than bitching about my color holding me back, I worked my ass off and became a success.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:55:00 +0000

It makes you paranoid to even leave your house, doesn’t it? It’s a damn shame. The days of thinking the cops were there to protect honest, lawful citizens is long, long over. You’re a bigger person than me – I’d have sued the shit out of those idiots and smiled the whole time. Though, I see your reluctance.

By: Jerseysmelltours

Jerseysmelltours — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:45:00 +0000

We all have to acknowledge that their are way too many LEO’s out there who took the job to be dicks like they were in high school…Don’t hurt themHammer…

By: Jaded28

Jaded28 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:03:00 +0000

Not just LA. I have been pulled over for no reason other than DWB (driving while black) in Las Vegas, Philadelphia, San Diego, Chicago, three times in Arizona (big shock) it’s kind of an epidemic. I’m starting to think I should eschew the German cars and just get beater.

By: Margaret Lea

Margaret Lea — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:59:00 +0000

Good for you. We need more of your kind.

By: Margaret Lea

Margaret Lea — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:57:00 +0000

A big bully indeed. That’s awful. I am not surprised that LA is that way though.

By: Jaded28

Jaded28 — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:22:00 +0000

I got pulled over a couple of years ago coming back from a snowboarding trip. Now at the time I was punk rock kid with electric red hair, and my friends in the car all had varying shades of crayola hair as well. There are 4 snowboards on the top of the car. I am still in full snowboard gear except for my boots. I’m driving in a bad neighborhood because I was dropping one of the guys off, and I get pulled over. First thing he does is ask my friends if they’re okay. Yes because I carjacked the 6’3″, pierced and tattooed guy sitting next to me. Apparently my car was used in a drive by a few hours ago. So I asked the cop “Did the car that was used in the drive by have snow on it? Did it have snowboard racks and boards?” This prompted him to pull me out of the car, throw me on the ground and put his foot in the back of my neck. He never asked me to get out, and I never resisted so this was a HUGE overreaction. He then started questioning my friends as to why they were with me in the neighborhood and were they there to buy drugs. My one friend, who was understandably freaked out, tried to calmly tell him I was just dropping him off at his house around the corner. At this point the cop start freaking out because he is now standing on my head for no reason. He finally asks me who’s car I’m driving (it was Audi so of course I stole it) and where I lived. Image his surprise when I told him that the car was mine, my caucasian friend was the one that lived in the ‘hood and I lived on the beach in Santa Monica. He got an even bigger surprise, when my pink haired pixie of a friend reached in to her purse and called her $5000 an hour attorney father and told him we needed help. I made the decision not to sue because I still have to live in LA and the cops here are vindictive at best, and I would live to avoid “accidentally” being shot by friendly fire.

By: Margaret Lea

Margaret Lea — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:47:00 +0000

Why should you be guilty of something that you had/have no involvement. I am speaking of those people who of today that we can feel out because of our inherit ability of a certain 6th-sense, and believe me, there is plenty.I have experienced a lot of that. I just gave a history of where it came from. We have to face the truth because we don’t want this type of history to ever happen again. There is plenty of people who don’t understand that people are different no matter what color of skin, because that is the way God made us. If we were all the same, the world wouldn’t be as diverse and beautiful. They fail to see the beauty and they are just mean narrow-minded people. If you are not like those people, it would show.

By: Judia

Judia — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:20:00 +0000

I said congress which consists of both parties.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:58:00 +0000

Preaching for the middlle class? Maybe to them while they still have some, but not for them. The middle class have been screwed by republicans and democrats.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:56:00 +0000

Power corrupts.

By: Judia

Judia — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:27:00 +0000

The president has been preaching for the middle class, but he can’t do it all by himself. Congress needs to be bought in on the idea.

I agree, they want the rich to prevail in the USA. The middle class has it rough in the USA. We work for them + pay their bills.

The Republicans got screwed because they shouldn’t have let the racist people top the opinions in the campaign. Donald Trump, the Tea Party and Rush Limbaugh should have kept their big mouths shut, and others too.
Yea, I agree. there are Democrats in there with a lot of bull**** too.

By: Margaret Lea

Margaret Lea — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:15:00 +0000

It becomes a color thing when they do too much to one color than other colors. Then we start thinking there must be a prejudice in the system. The system is made up of all kinds characteristics. Cops are too quick to think that they have a drug bust with Blacks because they want the commission. That’s prejudice thinking and racist right there.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:13:00 +0000

I worked for the police department for over 15 years and have seen some unbelievable things. I dated a guy who was dying to get in the department and asked for my help so when I asked him why he wanted to be a cop so bad, he blatantly said, “because I want to be able to beat up some n_____s legally”. Needless to say, our relationship nor his dream to be a racist cop lasted long – I made sure of both. This kind of behavior and attitude is more common than you know.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:07:00 +0000

So true Rose. They seem to get off making you feel small, insignificant and most of all, powerless. The last time I checked, that kind of person was commonly known as a bully.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:04:00 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. My son, who’s about 6’4″, 220 lbs and has many tattoos can’t drive to the grocery store without getting pulled over. Just last week, I had to meet him at the front of our neighborhood because the police pulled him over and had him handcuffed in the back of the police car because they said he “looked” like a fugitive they were searching for. They even tried to tell me they were taking him in and holding him for questioning because he “looked” stoned. It took me raising hell and calling my attorney in front of the cops for them to let him go. They still tried to have his car impounded because they wanted to search it-telling me I would have to pay over $100 later to have it returned. After a 2nd round of hell raising, I took my son and his car home. My son has a job, goes to college and is an all around great kid (I’m a little biased!) I have absolutely no faith in our law enforcement.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:35:00 +0000

Those racist people are in the democratic party too. They just hide there, casting nets. To think either side cares about the middle class (which is being eliminated) is a joke. Both side are crooked. They use us and inundate us with bullshit so we are distracted, while they screw us all.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:32:00 +0000

I can understand that. It sucks big time. Sucked big time back then and sucks big time now. However also inherited is guilt. I never treat anybody mean and I mean nobody. Yet there is this ‘sucky guilt by association’ that sticks like dog crap, that it’s my fault, people long dead whom I’ve never met in my life, condemned me to be hated, because I am pale. Doesn’t matter that whites ‘fought’ to end slavery, or voted for Obama.

By: Margaret Lea

Margaret Lea — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:49:00 +0000

There are good and bad in everything in life. We are saying the law should get rid of the bad because every one problem of this kind affects society as you see here, then it becomes everybody’s problem.

By: Jollie

Jollie — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:36:00 +0000

You must be a child because this has nothing to do with sounding better. It has to do with treatment.

By: Margaret Lea

Margaret Lea — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:16:00 +0000

You know something, Blacks go around with feelers that an ant has. We can spot racism right from the bat. If you are a good caring White, we can sense that. We had/have to live with a 6th sense because of slavery of not being beat with whips from our slaver owners or lynched, and so that our children would not be sold to some other beating slave owner. We had to rely on God for everything. Lord knows if we had gotten perverts as slave owners. We still carry this, it’s in our genes.

By: Judia

Judia — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:58:00 +0000

Evidently, you are not Black. You have to be Black to understand what we are talking about. This country doesn’t consist of just Whites. You have to campaign for the whole America. Plus, a lot of racist people became mingled in the Republican’s campaign. I can tell you a life story of racism I have been through, but the good thing is that I am a strong person.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:30:00 +0000

I think her point is that it’s pretty hard to be labeled racist when you voted for a man, who happened to be black, for office. Yet still if you are white, you are a racist. No matter what the situation, even if you are sitting there, minding your own business, you are labeled a racist. No matter how much money you funnel into album sales, or buying products produced by other ethic groups, or wearing their styles or clapping your hands till your fingers are purple over people with color, you are a racist. Of course ONLY white people are racist! That’s all we ever hear. I liked hammer, but he was over the top. Some rich little white girl back talked a judge last week and got fined an additional ten thou. In some situations you keep your trap shut!

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:55:00 +0000

when do we need one? They pretty much are usless to protect you…..

By: Regina1180

Regina1180 — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:19:00 +0000

Everybody claims mistreatment by the cops until they need one….

By: MissZee

MissZee — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:01:00 +0000

if this country was really racist, i doubt Obama would have won the first election. just sayin

By: 55vineyard

55vineyard — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 04:43:00 +0000

Learn English, I have no idea what you are saying.
On topic, while not a fan of rap, I have heard he is a very nice man.

By: 6package

6package — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 04:01:00 +0000

all white america peoples be raceristical that why the m c hamper mans get arested if he were a white mans he wont even been stopped for drugs usage or speed dialing hims car. .

By: D

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:36:00 +0000

I have always been an MC Hammer fan, but I don’t feel
his comments he made about the cop make him soundany better
than the comments the cop made.