Swede (30,013 posts)
A tweet thread about something good.
https://twitter.com/rachel_maria65/status/1517871937531219968
The tweet is a just a picture of a young black man helping an elderly white man down an escalator. Nothing earth-shaking but the Twitter and DU responses act like this is some amazing display of kindness. The feeling I get from their posts is that they believe a black person acting like a civil, compassionate human being is so rare as to be noteworthy. And of course, DU has to jump in with a batch of condescending bouncies:
Star Member Walleye (14,302 posts)
2. That is the America that I love!
One time a few years ago I was driving sitting at a red light crying my eyes out because of the death of my boyfriend. Two young black men were driving the car next to me at the stoplight, wearing hoodies. I thought for sure they were gonna laugh at me instead the passenger rolled down his window and with the look of greatest concern said “are you OK, can I help you?” It was such a welcome comfort I still choke up thinking about it
Yeah, I don't believe that happened. But kudos for inventing a dead boyfriend to create a bouncy.
PufPuf23 (7,623 posts)
14. Have a similar story that you jarred my memory.
Went to Cal where met and married, what was a huge mistake for me.
In late 50s / early 60s lived in East SF Bay Area when parents separated and was basically the 5th kid of a family up the street. Went to 1-6 grade and later overlapped at Cal and he was our best man. So Memorial Day weekend 1984 I traveled from far northern California to attend his graduation from UCSF med school.
Unfortunately, my ill-fated marriage had broke up that April and had some time to kill and pulled to take him some sights in Berkeley. Got way teary and started off to SF in the beginning of a rain. I was driving a lifted Toyota 4X4 being a mountain person.
Crossing the old Bay Bridge, came out of the tunnel to wet payment and stalled traffic and slid into the back of a brand new, paper plated white Corvette and did a major number on the fiberglass trunk. This is like 6 PM on a Friday evening in traffic into San Francisco.
Got out to assess the damage as did the driver and his passenger. I was a 5' 8" 150 lb white guy in early 30s. The guys in the Corvette were very large black guys. I was blubbering all over and apologizing for smashing the car. The driver who was a foot taller than me and in a full length white fur coat and the other guy was equally large and also dressed to the nines. Oh shit.
The Driver came over and took me in his arms and comforted me, a real warm genuine embrace, and told me everything was going to be all right. He had no idea why I was so upset and distracted just that I needed comfort (probably because I had just rear-ended his car in the middle of the SF Bay Bridge Friday of Memorial Day weekend at rush hour). The Driver said that the vehicles looked like they were drivable and, if so, we would just drive off. That is what happened. Maybe he did not want an interaction with law enforcement?
Just made myself cry.
Also don't believe this one. A male giving a "real warm genuine embrace" to a male stranger over a traffic accident? Never happened. But I like the stereotypes. First he assumes he's going to get his ass kicked because two big black (obviously violent because they're black) guys hop out of the car he hit. And then they drive away without doing any of the things you would normally do after a traffic accident, because they did not want an interaction with law enforcement (obviously criminal because they were black). Add in the full length white fur coat and you've described any pimp from a 70's movie.
Lars39 (25,066 posts)
3. I have found young black men
to be the most helpful and concerned.
I have trouble getting through heavy doors sometimes.
Their mommas and daddies have taught them well.
Black people are natural doormen, because their mommas and daddies have taught them well. No that's not condescending. Not one bit.
Skittles (142,338 posts)
12. heh
one of them retrieved a hard-to-reach item for me at the grocery store earlier - I was on my tiptoes, stretching as high as I could and it was still an inch out of reach, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
One of them? Seen enough DU threads to know that those are racist "code words".
demigoddess (6,171 posts)
5. my daughter loves black people the most. It was a black lady who taught her to eat
and since then, she loves all black people as if they were angels. And usually they are.
Apparently her daughter is severely handicapped so no judgement there. But put together any statement that includes "she loves all white people as if they were angels. And usually they are." and see what kind of response you get.
dem in texas (2,596 posts)
10. My good story (from an old white lady)
My old boy is 85 years old and blind. Like most old men, he has to "pee" often, I usually end up taking him into the men's restroom which I absolutely hate to do. Twice in crowded public buildings, a young black man offered to take him to the restroom for me.
Seems a little too convenient to be a real story.
dem in texas (2,596 posts)
11. I just remembered another good story
I used to own an antique shop and was a regular at estate sales. I'd had a good day "picking" in Dallas and my little station wagon was loaded, even had a shelf tied on the luggage rack on top. I had blow-out on a tire and pulled off the road when a car with 4 young black men pulled in right behind me offering to help. They had to unload my car to get the spare tire, then load it back up after the tire was changed,
I was so grateful for their help and offered to pay them, but they declined, got back in their car and drove away..
She thought on it a while and came up with something more reasonable.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216621483Like almost everyone, I hold doors for people and I get stuff off the top shelf for people and I stop to help people on the side of the road and other people do the same for me. Just normal people doing normal things. I don't register the race of people I help or who help me. But DUer's apparently keep a running tally of every interaction they ever had with a black person. Of all the random interactions I've had, I can only remember the race of one person I assisted. I changed a flat tire for a black woman in downtown Tampa. She was very worried about getting out of the area and getting to her home in the suburbs. Why? Because the Rodney King verdict had just been announced and she was afraid of becoming a target when the blacks started rioting and looting (her words, not mine). She apparently was a believer in this Jesse Jackson quote:
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
― Jesse Jackson
Black people can acknowledge the problems that exist in certain communities. White Dems offer condescending platitudes while diluting the concept of racism to the point that the word is meaningless.
