@Industrialsize
I said it must be nice to be white sometimes because you, as a white male, clearly don't feel the oppressive weight of racial profiling on you at all times already.
Racial profiling and prejudice are pervasive and persistent. As a person of color, you feel it any time you're in public. If you go shopping, you feel eyes on you. If a salesperson comes over to say hello, are they really just there to offer help, or are they trying to make sure you're not stealing something. And particularly, in interactions with agents of the executive branch of government, it makes you fearful of your safety and freedom in any interaction. Persons of color don't have the privilege of getting pulled over by a cop and only worrying to themselves about how much the ticket is going to cost.
When I say it must be nice to be white sometime, it is a remark about your comments and white privilege... about how nice it must be to live in a world where these things aren't at the forefront of your adult interactions. Where you can honestly and truly feel like there are a lot of people out there who aren't racially profiling now, but want to, and have just been waiting for support from the president before they start doing it. Where you can feel like incidents of racial profiling are just isolated incidents and not parts of systemic racism that are baked into the way our government engages with the public right now.
Racial profiling is a currently broken aspect of our system of government. Pardoning Arpaio is certainly not a step towards fixing it, but it doesn't break it more than it already is. Your heart isn't in the wrong place worrying that there's going to be more profiling out of this. I'm not calling you a bad person (for this). But I am saying it must be nice to be white sometimes
