a couple of not-particularly-insightful, and hopefully not-particularly-controversial statements:
1. Everyone is more comfortable around people "like them". It is easily possible that this dude was less comfortable dealing with a black family than he would've been dealing with people that were just like him. In the same vein, I (as a yakee-scum that lived in San Francisco) might have had less automatic good will than somebody who went to his high school with him, even though I am a 40 year old white man. Pointing this fact out isn't necessarily an indictment, just an observation. How people DEAL with their relative comfort zones is what determines how much of a p.o.s. they are.
2. There are duchebags in all walks of life. Period. However, that said, people get to choose what they do for a living, and some professions have a greater propensity to attract d-bags. Both police and doctors disproportionately attract some of the most wonderful, civil minded people on the planet... people that just want to do good for humanity. Both ALSO attract a disproportionate amount of d-bags, that are only attracted to power (wealth in the case of doctors, pure Napoleonic ability to lord over people and make them squirm, in the case of police). This is unfortunate, but true. It doesn't take a very high percentage of a-holes to taint the whole pool's relationship with the rest of society, either. Cops REALLY need to work hard to patrol them selves... it is very important, because we NEED them, and a force with a tainted relationship with the society it is tasked to protect is greatly diminished.
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