@CTLAWYER
Just because the blacks in your town are getting profiled and are a disproportionate subject of police suspicions (assuming your circumstantial observations are a true reflection of the greater numbers), isn’t necessarily due to police racism, and certainly not necessarily systematic. It may very plausibly be due also to simple prudent, logical concern. If a snake-catcher is notified that green snakes in a particular area are behaving more brazenly, and their venom is more toxic, then he’s not to be criticised for being on the lookout for green snakes more than red. Duh.
As @Joseph succinctly said “None of the above is sexist, ageist or racist.”
Now, it may be true that that particular snake catcher might indeed harbour personal anti-green animus. But being that his job entails catching dangerous snakes, the anti-green theory should not be the first assumed motivation for his actions. And certainly not one to paint all snake-catchers on a global level.
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Also, your criticism of @som1 was pointless and silly – his comment was completely on-topic. (Not like it’s uncommon or wrong for discussions in a Coffee-Room thread to run off topic on side discussions anyway.) And your response to him (which, by the way is probably about 8 times as long as his small 3-line comment), was indeed off-topic, and had little to do even with what HE had said. His comment wasn’t a personal attack on you. Don’t get so defensive.