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      "body": "Current research suggests that racial profiling and police brutality are a representation of the racial inequality apparent in the United States (Holmes/Smith 2008, 4). So what exactly is racial profiling? What does it represent? \nThe Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights defines racial profiling as referring “to the targeting of particular individuals by law enforcement authorities based not on their behavior but rather their personal characteristics.” (The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights 2011, 1). This rather vague definition is extended by Robert Staples in his text White Power, Black Crime and Racial Politics, when he asserts that “[it] should be viewed instead as the systemic, historic, and lived experiences of blacks being controlled and punished by the police and a criminal justice system that exercises incredible […] bias”. He offers as a cause that a majority-white public “condones and rationalizes this treatment” (Staples 2015), meaning that racial profiling is a side-effect of the racial bias already commonplace in American society. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights offers an interesting insight into the statistics behind this contention: In the year 2005, black drivers were twice as likely to be pulled over and arrested as white drivers. The report also states that Black and Hispanic drivers were car and body-searched at a higher rate than white drivers (The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights 2011, 9). \nAs a counterpoint to Staples assertion that racial profiling is a side-effect of an already deeply racist society, Mathias Risse and Richard J. Zeckhauser argue that the fact that society is racially biased justifies racial profiling as merely a way for police to keep the peace, thereby neglecting to address the underlying issue as a root problem which is truly at fault for all else: \n\n“[…] police and security measures making race an important characteristic in deciding whom to stop, search, or investigate are morally justified in a broad range of cases, including many cases that tend to be controversial” (Risse, Matthias and Richard J. Zeckhauser 2003). \n\nIn an attempt to counter that idea, which further extends Staples’ thesis, Annabelle Lever challenges two arguments made by Risse and Zeckhauser in particular in her text Why Racial Profiling is Hard to Justify: (1) “the harm caused by profiling per se is largely due to underlying racism\" and is, therefore, purely expressive; and (2) \"the incremental harm done by profiling often factors into utilitarian considerations in such a way as to support profiling.”  As a counterargument to these theses, Lever claims that “the harms of racial profiling are not principally expressive; that some of the harms are quite large; and that even where the magnitude is not that great, background racism makes these additional harms harder to bear and to justify.” (Lever 2005, 95) What Risse and Zeckhauser are asking the reader to do is to take the racism out of racial profiling, which, in itself, would be racist in nature and would simply lead to justify the prejudice regarding a race, instead of actively fighting it. Unfortunately, this type of rationalization of racial bias is often still customary in the United States. The idea that racism should simply be dropped as an issue altogether instead of being properly dealt with exists in the minds of many Americans. \nHistorically speaking, racial bias is old news in the Unites States. African-Americans have had to endure systemic physical and mental abuse by the United States government since the very beginning of its establishment. Although the focus of this text is on the past decades, it is interesting to see that racial bias is something that has plagued African-Americans throughout history. In his essay White Power, Black Crime and Racial Politics Robert Staples reminds the reader that “[a]s early as 1693, court officials in Philadelphia authorized the police to take up any \"Negro\" seen ‘gadding about’ without a pass from his or her master” (Staples 2015). He also explains that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made the matter even more pertinent by threatening “law enforcement officials and ordinary citizens with severe fines if they failed to assist in the capture of assisted runaway slaves, when suspicion could be based only on written claims” (Staples 2015). Moreover, he asserts that these issues went on without challenge until the 1950s. He mentions the Civil Rights Movement as being that which finally challenged racial profiling and police brutality towards African-Americans but also admits that it merely reduced the possibility of whole ethnic groups being targeted when, in reality, it did not change the situation for the better in any significant way (Staples 2011, 32). Throughout the 1960s, the United States experienced many police-minority encounters which commonly led to race riots (Holmes/Smith 2008, 2), often in an attempt to protest the acquittals of officers which were part of the killings of African-Americans. Exemplary of this would be the killing of Arthur McDuffie in 1979 which is detailed in Malcom D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith’s Race and Police Brutality: Roots of an Urban Dilemma. (Holmes/Smith 2008, 2). Another famous example is the beating of Rodney King in 1991 which led to a growth of racial tension and ultimately a race riot of grave proportions.\nThis goes to show that racial profiling, police brutality as well as activism to produce social changes have been a fairly steady occurrence throughout history. What has changed, however, is the proportions of action with which those issues are faced and the magnitude and attitude of and towards said events as represented by the mainstream media.  \n\nAfrican-American Protest Songs of the Past Decades\n\nJust like the issue of racial profiling having existed since before the establishment of an American government, music has always been a tool to process feelings of inferiority and institutional disregard. African-American protest music finds its origin in times of slavery, with African-American slaves using folklore as a way to express their political sentiments and protest their predicaments (Dunaway 1987, 275). From 1954 to 1965, the Civil Rights Movement made frequent use of protest songs in their campaigns, adapting traditional songs and melodies for its purposes. Towards the end of the movement, the use of music during marches and protests began to fade (Dunaway 1987, 287). However, out of the Civil Rights Era grew several new movements of black music including funk, with James Brown expressing his desire for a heightened sense of black pride with lyrics such as “Say It Loud / I’m Black and I’m Proud”, and soul music, which consists of protest songs such as Aretha Franklin’s Think. Another interesting development was Afrofuturism which was birthed out of jazz. With Jazz having always played an important role in African-American musical expression, exemplary of this being songs such as the famous protest song Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday, artists such as Sun Ra extended the protest by adding a new and thought-provoking twist: Science-Fiction and the idea of a utopian future for African-Americans in which race would be meaningless and the feelings of discontentment and inferiority would be wiped away. In his book Cultural Moves Herman S. Gray describes Sun Ra as attempting to “signal that he was not of this (earthly) world” and spreading the message that “space was the place of unlimited human possibility” (Gray 2005, 148). The idea of a utopian future was made popular by African-American writer W.E.B DuBois, who was inspirational for the concepts of Afrofuturism. \n\tMore recently it has been rap music which has taken hold of popular African-American musical expression and it has given protest a sincere but sometimes angry new feeling. Although rap music found its roots in apolitical party-music, it soon found itself representing a platform of protest and political expression, with groups such as Public Enemy marking “the emergence of rap as a political cultural form” (Rose 1991, 276). It also “ushered in a new rap aesthetic” (Rose 1991, 276). Public Enemy led the way in protesting institutional neglect with songs like 911 is a joke and Fight the power, promoting not only black pride and unity as a way to challenge oppression but using music as a way to revolutionize the situation: \n\nAs the rhythm designed to bounce\nWhat counts is that the rhymes\nDesigned to fill your mind\nNow that you've realized the prides arrived\nWe got to pump the stuff to make us tough\nFrom the heart\nIt's a start, a work of art\nTo revolutionize make a change nothin's strange\nPeople, people we are the same\n(Public Enemy, 1989) \n\nOn the subject of racial profiling, Public Enemy expressed the following in their song Fear of a black planet from 1990, outlining the racial bias which plagues African-American neighborhoods: \n\nI've been wonderin' why\nPeople livin' in fear\nOf my shade\n(Or my hi top fade)\nI'm not the one that's runnin'\nBut they got me one the run\nTreat me like I have a gun\n(Public Enemy, 1990) \n\nThe California rap collective N.W.A found a harsher approach to protest racial profiling and police brutality with their very honest 1988 song Fuck tha Police, very explicitly naming the issues and challenging them with outrage and anger:  \n\nFuck tha police\nComin straight from the underground\nYoung nigga got it bad 'cause I'm brown\nAnd not the other color so police think\nThey have the authority to kill a minority\n(NWA, 1988) \n\nAll aspects considered, rap represents yet another and perhaps the most recent branch of African-American protest music. Trisha Rose offers an interesting assessment of rap music’s relationship to political activism, detailing also the struggle of it having a real impact on society as institutional powers have tried hard to keep it hidden: \n\n\"Rap's poetic voice is deeply political in content and spirit, but its hidden struggle-that of access to public space and community resources and the interpretation of Black expression-constitutes rap's hidden politics. Hegemonic discourses have rendered these institutional aspects of Black cultural politics invisible. \"\n(Rose 1991, 289) \n\nRap-music has lacked representation. 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      "body": "So  essentially lets just F#^k go out there and get f@!ked by men looking at you and saying whooooo LOOK AT THAT SWEET A** ?\n\nCan I be more agreeing on this thought? lol\n\nYou know animals (in this case cats) male goes and finds a female then literally jumps on her and eventually does his job even if the female puts up a good fight.\n\n\nWhen I was teenager I had more girly hormones and imagined being a girl then all I wanted was for a  guy with muscular body to force himself on me, damn :( it was mostly because of ( some allergy shots I was given from childhood) but later on from 18 and older I got back to normal though.\n\nNow I wasn't a girl yet I had those URGES and I could imagine what happens in women's mind being the real female ones :)\n\nAll the problems and  URGES can be fixed by marriage, why not doing all the things you fantasized with your husband?\nWhy not wait a few years maybe to find some one that makes you happy and wants you for who you are and not who you think others  wants you to be?",
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