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EAST / PEAST: The acronym for Ethnic Awareness Sensitivity Training or Police Ethnic Awareness Sensitivity Training. The proposed sensitivity training for police forces in the public eye for racial profiling arrest cases.
References: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Black Professor Wants Apology over Arrest, Chris Matthews, Clarence Page and Michael Eric Dyson on the Gates Arrest on Hardball on MSNBC, Chris Matthews, Clarence Page, Michael Eric Dyson, DWB, Egocrime, EAST or PEAST, American Apartheid, Apartheid, Police State, Man killed by cop after day of swimming.
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Egocrime: Literally, the 'crime' of being who you are. Being singled out as a 'criminal suspect' by a police state for being a diverse or otherwise ethnic person or persons. A result of racial profiling where/when there is no real guilt nor crime having been committed - except perhaps by the authorities...
References: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Black Professor Wants Apology over Arrest, Chris Matthews, Clarence Page and Michael Eric Dyson on the Gates Arrest on Hardball on MSNBC, Chris Matthews, Clarence Page, Michael Eric Dyson, DWB, Egocrime, EAST or PEAST, American Apartheid, Apartheid, Police State, Man killed by cop after day of swimming.
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EWB / RWB: (Not to be confused with Engineers Without Borders nor Reporters Without Borders)
. Literally, Entering-While-Black or Residing-While-Black. Similar to the semi-urban myth egocrime (the 'crime' of being who you are) of DWB.References: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Black Professor Wants Apology over Arrest, Chris Matthews, Clarence Page and Michael Eric Dyson on the Gates Arrest on Hardball on MSNBC, Chris Matthews, Clarence Page, Michael Eric Dyson, DWB, Egocrime, EAST or PEAST, American Apartheid, Apartheid, Police State, Man killed by cop after day of swimming,
racial profiling.Please Note: We are completely on the side of Professor Gates. We believe that he (an eminent man) was wronged and that the arrest/incident was a travesty.
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