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I really want to know how this arrest was considered racism.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_harvard_scholar_disorderly;_ylt=Arh8ONCIgSzdmj_PAG0mBH6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNmM3FzNThmBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNzIzL3VzX2hhcnZhcmRfc2Nob2xhcl9kaXNvcmRlcmx5BGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNwRwdANzZWN0aW9uc19jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA29iYW1hc3R1cGlkbA

• Man called police about a burglary at his home
• Police ask man for identification when they arrive on scene
• Man REFUSES to present ID
• Man gets arrested for disorderly conduct
• Man happens to be black

So, if I am asked by a cop for an ID, refuse, and get arrested, can I say they are being racist because I am white? I think not.

This reminds me of a time I was out at a bar with some female friends. "J" noticed a girl in a bad outfit: jean shorts so tiny, they looked like something that would come off a Levis blue jean underwear product line. She just so happened to be black. "A" in our group took a picture so that we could send it to Cosmo's "Do and Don't" fashion section. Apparently a friend of the offending female saw the picture being taken and called our whole group racist and started staring and making fun of us in whispers and stares. Really? I'm racist? How? As "A" summed it up afterward, "Bad fashion has no racial bounds."

When are people going to quit pulling the "racism card"? Yes, I believe that racism does exist, but not in situations where the person blatantly does something wrong, then calls the accuser "racist" as a get out of jail free card.