What I'd suggest is that it's stereotyping: It happens because how how people look, the color of their skin but also a thousand other indicators of wealth, cla

What I'd suggest is that it's stereotyping: It happens because how how people look, the color of their skin but also a thousand other indicators of wealth, class, gender, standing, political power, etc. Police are bad about it because they're forced over and over again to make snap judgements-- and a moment of excessive trust can cost them their lives. They see the worst of people all the time. Without a constant effort to restore and refresh their humanity its easy to imagine it failing to cynicism, and sometimes the cynicism turning to hate. The irony though, of course, is that the sterotyping isn't limited to people of particular skin colors though it isn't hard to make the case that people suffer worse for that cause in many places. It's something that many people have suffered from, and in that there is an opportunity for unity-- the unity of stigmatized people, rather than the division of privilege. Each persons life is so different that if you take two people, regardless of their respective backgrounds or genetics, either one may have had a more or less privileged or more or less stigmatized life. To suggest that the specific and individual suffering of one person is lesser than those of another on the basis of their race is just sterotyping, just prejudice itself. There is no honor in a competition over who was wronged more and indulging it creates division among those who should otherwise cooperate to bring about a more fair and just world for everyone. We should be able to stand up for the rights of each and every person to be treated fairly, without anyone confusing that for dismissing systematic abuses. And we should be able to dismantle systematic abuses without creating the impression that we don't care about people who haven't suffered those particular abuses but suffer from their own, none the less. We can do that if we ground our understanding that so many of these abuses come from the underlying practice of stereotyping-- reducing people to the color of their skin, their bank balance, their credit score, the region that the live in, etc. rather than understanding them as individual human beings.