I, for one, want to say that I do think I understand what Dragona is saying in her post regarding race relations in the US. It might be difficult for someone who has not spent a significant amount of time in the country to appreciate it from the way Dragona laid it out, but any person with a darker skin tone will notoriously be treated in a different manner by the police and about any authority figure, i.e. the cops have the reputation of treating any non-white person as a criminal, regardless of the situation--the Rodney King and OJ Simpson incidents carried so much weight in the country precisely for this reason. This has logically produced a strong amount of distrust from many people with darker complexion, depending on their personal experiences or those of their friends and family. In the context of her post (regarding the treatment of white people by Spanish speakers), the reference to the police makes sense...though it could have been explained a little more.
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