Criming While White

The only way a class on white privilege can "shame" white people is if it's presented wrong. It's not comfortable to read a paper on white privilege or to listen to a lecture by Tim Wise; I've felt ignorant, surprised, dismayed and sad. But shame indicates that someone knows they've done wrong. Most white people, particularly ones who don't mix regularly with other races, aren't aware of white privilege. To make them feel shame isn't the answer. Awareness and education is. Jmo.

 

Mike brown was 18 but you feel he is culpable for this "branding" of a 25 year period. This right here is why people who can't do second grade math are not taken seriously.

 

As I said before and I will say again and again,the right does not give a rat's butt about Black males since slavery. They didn't lifted a finger when Apartheid happened,and slavery/Jim Crow in the States. On Cos,he is going to be a pariah as compaired to Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. No doubt anyone had vandalized their stars on the Walk of Fame in Hollywod.

 

Talk about pretzel logic a.k.a. willfully evading a point. Like REALLY WORKING HARD LIKE A JOB to evade a point. Just wow

 

At least we care enough to discuss it....

 

Lol....shit

A lot of people discuss blacks.....and it's not because they 'care' about us

 

Whatever. Somebody always has to turn comments like this into a racist thing. So much for a white person that wants to care, wants to understand, wants to have a reasonable discussion about racial attitudes. Everything gets misconstrued or ridiculed. It's tiring. Especially from you because you know me better than that.

 

Discussing blacks is a racial thing

And that was the wrong smiley...I soooo meant to use something more juvenile

My bad America!

 

- My ex and I were once pulled over in Lincoln Park, up in Illinois. I was about 21 at the time, she was 19. Some of the questions that the officers asked her ranged from 'are you ok?' when she had no look of being in distress on her face to 'do your parents know where you're at?' She was far more miffed than I was at the encounter. The cops left me with a ticket for a 'rolling stop' as a nice parting gift.

- Again, in my early 20's. While driving through Lisle, Il to go to the Bulls/SOX academy to play basketball I was 'escorted' literally from the moment I got off the expressway all the way to my final destination.

- The same happened to me in a community in Coral Springs, FL while driving to spend the night at my ex's. I called her and asked her to come downstairs to meet me, just in case. When they saw her approach me, they just drove off.

- In one city in Indiana (don't recall exactly which, but it had a population of about 1% black at the time), I had a Hollywood video manager call the police on me while I was there picking out movies and games with my white friend and his hispanic wife. The officer approached me and asked if he could check my person. I agreed to it (I was a lot less bitter at that point in my life) and, of course he found nothing. He later explained to me that he was called because I fit the description of someone who'd apparently stolen from them the week prior.

- When I was 12, while walking home in Morgan Park, IL with a group of friends, 3 white men in a normal car rode by and yelled something (to this day, I don't know what they said) out the window at us. Under the assumption that they yelled something racist, we yelled back and gave them the 1 finger salute. The car came to a screeching halt and pulled up on the curb in front of us. They showed us badges and threatened us with 'mob action'. While patting us down, they slammed my head on the car, for which I suffered a chipped front tooth. I told my mother that I chipped the tooth fighting. In hindsight, the officers were probably just wishing us luck with our homework and we mistook it for something else.

.... that's just a few of my encounters.

 

I don't disagree with this at all Ches, and I've sat 'in the middle' of this for a very long time and it gets extremely tiring.

 

And why does an incredibly small percentage of the whole speak for everyone unless it only serves to support already racialized feelings.
Show me a group of people where the youth don't pride themselves on being macho and "not giving a fuck" yet for everyone else the tough guy thing is a stage and for us it's all we are.

 

On three separate occasions when I've had a pretty blonde girl with me in the car the cops have pulled me over and asked the girl if she was there of her own free will. Only with blonde women though.

 

Blacks are known for kidnapping white women

 

lol yeah I know right
Funny when looking back its only been blonde chicks, maybe they think the brunettes are latina?

 

They think ur driving around with arianne grande or whatever her name is

 

Lord I wish

 

Unbelievable. I know I shouldn't be but I'm still so shocked by all this.

 

Ah, to be a Black man in America. I'm lucky that I haven't had too many run-ins with the police but if I didn't wear a suit most days I know that I'd be going through the exact same shit.

Here's hoping that one day we can truly live in a post-racial society...but I won't hold my breath.

 

More people care than what you might think...kids from elementary through high school are walking out of classes and marching on capital hill in major cities all across the USA...200 people shut down I36 in boulder county yesterday during rush hour in protest...boulder county is one of the richest counties in the USA ...full of white privilege that do not agree with police brutality...to say white people don't care is just not true...

 

FUCK LET ME TROLL IN PEACE

Kthxbye



Seriously if u follow me like twitter, u know I'm very vocal about the love being shown all over the world

If white people generally didn't care about blacks, those marches from 1960s and beyond would look very different

As I said before, you also can't assume someone 'cares' about blacks just because they are black themselves

That's just gotdamn horseshit