Talk:Driving While Black

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This ridiculous, biased and completely uninformative article should be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.214.197 (talk • contribs)

• Why? It's a common enough phrase, and this article explains its origin. 200.184.189.132 18:19, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Yes, it is so common that it has spawned new phrases such as the post-9/11 "Flying while Arab" and "Flying while Muslim". --Ezeu 04:42, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do not merge

Do not merge this with "racial profiling" This topic should be expanded...

futurebird

I agree. This page is having a bit of trouble standing on its own at the moment, but it is much more a candidate to be fleshed out rather than simply merged. One thing though. I always try to critique articles by pretending I have absolutely no prior familiarity with the circumstances/background information. Thus, despites the quotes around crime I feel the first few sentences sound too much like describing an actual crime. Anyway...I'll see if I find time for this article. –ArmadniGeneral (talk • contribs) 22:19, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I fleshed it out, and its citations should be secure enough to stand on its own. - Freechild 16:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

I've altered a recent change that made offense into offence because its a predominately American phenomenon. To make the point, I found just over 1,900 google hits on "driving while black" and "united kingdom"; I found just over 30,000 google hits on "driving while black" and "united states". FYI. – Freechild (¡!¡!¡!¡) 01:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Criticism of the term"

The "Criticism of the term" section simply gives some anecdotal stories and claims that "empirical evidence did not support the claim". Um. Can someone with the book please cite the "empirical evidence" (is it a study, statistics, what?). Why is so much of the section devoted to an anecdote? —Pengo 04:12, 15 March 2008 (UTC)