Without wishing to support or inflame any discussions, I thought this might at least be interesting to some.
I manage a team of sales reps. Some are men, some are women, and one of them is a chap of Afro Caribbean extraction. His parents came here from Jamaica in the '50s. Quite apart from that rather irrelevant fact, he's middle aged, he's one of the nicest, most sensible guys I know, very good at his job, and drives like Miss Daisy. He's married to a white female police officer, and they have two lovely daughters.
The reason he drives so carefully is that he's sick of being pulled over by the police. On average, and confirmed by his wife, it happens on a regular basis, 6 to 8 times a year, every year, for the 35 years he's been "on the road". In fact, I was in his car as a passenger a couple of times when it happened. He wasn't speeding on either occasion, in fact he hadn't done anything that could possibly have attracted any such attention, but it still happened.
In contrast, I've been pulled over twice in my life and most probably deserved it on one of those occasions,
"Routine checks Sir"
Yeah right...wonder why eh?
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