Racism and stupidity

It's easy to say racism is stupid. Here's the argument from both sides:

"If a mild-mannered, bespectacled Ivy League professor who walks with a cane can be pulled from his own home and arrested on a minor charge (only because of he's black), the rest of us don't stand a chance. "

From the other side, the police is doing him a public service by acting on a potential break-in. He's out of line by, allegedly, yelling the following to the police:
"you don't know who you're messing with" and something regarding the officer's mum.

I can feel the entitlement he has as a University Professor at Harvard. After all that he has achieved, he is only a black man in a nice neighborhood: he has to make extra effort to explain why he's there. Well, in the case, all he needs to do is not talking trash.

To me, both sides are losers over this.