Dr. Boyce Debates U. Akron Racial Profiling Incident on NPR

September 14, 2011 By Staff 7 Comments

Dr. Boyce Watkins appears on the NPR show, “Tell Me More with Michel Martin” to speak with the Chief Diversity Officer at The University of Akron about a recent incident where black males were isolated by the university and sent an email telling them not to run from or cuss at the police if they are stopped.

You can listen to the audio by clicking here.

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Anonymous

You forgot talking about right wing media. The right wing media hate Blacks so much they refused to publish that a Black African woman won Ms. World Beauty contest. We welcome Ms. Angola as Ms. World. You may remember I wrote about black women in response to Japanese evolutionary scientist, Satoshi Kanazawa, who wrote black women were unattractive. Here is a world beauty now to challenge Satoshi so called scientific stupid observations. I believe Kanazawa had not met beautiful Black women. He should go to Dares-Salaam, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nairobi, Chicago, and Key West or come here in Madison. He will definitely revise his so called scientific observation. Kanazawa findings were stupid. I have seen some Asian women really unattractive too. In fact I have seen very few Asian women with beautiful legs and teeth. I lived with one for two years. I did not see her any different from other women. However, on several times she would tell me that White males think Asian women are a delicacy. That statement surprised me. Maybe that is reason many married rich White males vacation in Japan and Malaysian countries to quench their sex drives with Asian women. I have had opportunity to observe women of different national origins, White, Black, Spanish, Somalis, Arabs, Russians and found women of all colors and background were no different from one another. As a whole all women are made attractive. I believe Satoshi Kanazawa was deceived when young to believe Black women unattractive. Sorry he was fired. He should get mental treatment. We welcome Ms. Angola as Ms. World.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7LRD3AZBIWVCBSSVHEIWP5HT7Y markd

…Yes, I totally agree with everything you say, with the exception of being sorry that he was fired. I strongly believe he got what he deserved! Ain’t nobody ask him to go pickin’ on our woman! SO I say GOOD FOR HIS SORRY A**!!!!! Perhaps next time he’ll think twice before opening his mouth about something he really, truly knows nothing about!

Samdromeda

I remember on MSU campus being escorted by the sisters due to a murder investigation that implicated, by campus police projection, an Afro American male. They attempted to pin the crime on a campus black activist. Profiling can be politically motivated and requires
critical thinking and common sense. On campus then no black male was allowed out after dark without a female escort and this was enforced by the black female population on campus. It was very effective.
Belkin Laster

What else can we really add to this? How in the hell can campus officials justify this stuff? They “tried” to be respectful about it, but what is respectful about being targeted for my skin color? What is respectful for being under suspicion for the actions of another human being who I don’t know, but we happen to share the same race? Whites committ crimes everyday. It’s across the news and you can easily locate it. They even committ crimes right near the campus. Why is it they are allow to be individuals and not targeted while black males are suppose to act in a manner to avoid being beaten or murder by police? GTFOH. No explanation can justify this.
Omarali81

its hard to be a black man
Svet_pink

Please see below my initial comments sent when this situation was first noted on this site a week or so ago. ______________It’s really interesting to me how all the responses are related to what the black men should or not be doing. The fact is that this should not be an issue because black men should be treated by the police the same way they treat WHITE MEN. So they shouldn’t need instructions about how to keep from getting harmed or even killed by policemen that are supposed to uphold the law and protect all citizens without regard to someone’s race, creed or color. Period! However, all too often, the police act as the judge, jury and executioner right on the spot when dealing with African-Americans. The fact of the matter is that this is a police problem. There are racist policemen that make a conscious choice to abuse or murder everyday because to date, if it’s someone black, there will be no negative consequences for them. As we all know, it can even be on video tape and they will get off. Remember Rodney King? And, there were many before him, it just wasn’t on video and there have been many since. Remember the young man that was killed by the Bart Metro system police in Oakland that was on video but when it’s someone black, persons want to dissect the video and ask stupid questions like, I can clearly see on the video that they are beating this person while their hands are cuffed behind them and they are on the ground but are they actually beating the person? Maybe, the policemen were still in danger. The video just doesn’t show that angle. How absurd? This is a bad policing problem but we always give policemen the out, as long as they are harassing and killing black people. And, this is absolutely a racial thing because can’t anyone reading this response name at least a half of dozen incidents, that were given national attention, within the last two years where a young white man was gunned down by a police officer merely because they thought he had a gun, he ran from the police, the police suspected them to be someone else, the policemen feared for their life, they had just killed someone,…. But, there are numerous of these type of incidents regarding young black men not to mention older black men and to a lesser degree black WOMEN. And, I can go on and on about the absurd excuses or explanations that policemen give everyday about abusing, brutalizing up to murdering black men and women and there’s no public outcry! A lot of persons know that the police’s conduct isn’t right but they justify it in their mind because it’s okay as long as it’s someone of color but they better not start to killing white people in this manner and at this rate. If they do, that’s when you will begin to see police officers getting the electric chair and that’s what they need to get when they kill an unarmed person, a person who is on the ground and handcuffed, shoot someone through the back, etc. It should be an automatic life or death sentence because to whom much is given, much is required and police are given a lot of room to exercise their authority but it should not be abused and if so, they should pay a high price. I don’t think that they should be given some special out because they are policemen. They choose to be a policeman and if they can’t take the heat without stepping over the line, they should get out of the kitchen. In other words, they should quit and I truly believe that would virtually resolve this issue of innocent or even persons who may have done something and the police have to apprehend and take into custody from being physically abused or murdered. This is the problem that the University of Akron should be addressing and speaking out about. The policeman’s criminal conduct should be addressed not give innocent black men instructions as to how to act when stopped by police officers. Because in this supposedly fair and just American judicial system, we are all supposedly innocent until proven guilty in a legitimate COURT OF LAW not a POLICEMAN’S COURT OF LAW out in the field!
Svet_pink

Oops! To those who may read my comment posted, I apologize as the formatting is off. After the first sentence ending in the word “ago,” the underline should have been on the next line and then the start of the comments beginning with the word “It’s” should have begun under the underline which would make “…..see below my initial comments……” make sense noted in the very first sentence of my post instead of the first sentence running into the underline. Sorry for the faulty formatting!