It's because I'm black, isn't it?

[hillneck]

Star Member MrScorpio (64,375 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/118747502

The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black

Then quit selling dope on the street corner.

[txradioguy]

I've been stopped for 30 minutes by the local cops before for a busted headlight.  Waited while the cop ran my DL through every database in the state looking for a "probably cause" excuse to search my car...all because of what time of night it was.

I've been pulled over in Tampa Florida on the "bad" side of town and questioned about why a white kid like me was in that neighborhood that time of night. (I was dropping off an employee of my FIL who lived there)

German Polizei follow soldiers waiting for them to not use their turn signal in order to pull them over.

So what exactly was the point that Scorpio X was trying to make?

[FiddyBeowulf]

Star Member TygrBright (14,408 posts)
6. Thank you for posting this, MrScorpio

There are really no words for the sorrow and anger these truths evoke.

I'm a white woman. Every time I search my memory for each instance where fear of black people, particularly black men, was deliberately, casually, or unconsciously imparted to me from childhood on, I find more.

In so many ways, casual and deliberate, conscious and unconscious, I was exposed to the fear of those different from me. It was inevitable that the combination of fear and privilege would result in racism.

I can't change the past, I can't undo the racism I absorbed then.

What I can do, I can do now.

I will attend and be alert on my own responses. I will make recognizing my own unconscious fear and rejecting it a priority.

I will make recognizing the privilege that is part of my life as a white person a priority.

I will stay alert for opportunities to reject and counteract both fear and privilege.

I will commit awareness and resources to that rejection, to that counteraction.

I will banish assumptions about what I haven't experienced, and can't know.

I will listen to the experiences of those who had no choice but to suffer from the fear and privilege given to me and those like me.

I will learn.

determinedly,
Bright

That is all fine and good but you will still avoid "that" part of town won't you?

[Duke Nukum]

I would like to know what DUmmie was doing.  50 times is a lot. Maybe he's just unlucky and he has passed 30 or 40 banks just as they were being robbed. Or maybe he hung out with bad people.

Of course, the DUmmie will never be truthful about it. He just wants to surgically remove 50 police interrogations from time, space, and circumstance to make a political point.

[txradioguy]

I would like to know what DUmmie was doing.  50 times is a lot. Maybe he's just unlucky and he has passed 30 or 40 banks just as they were being robbed. Or maybe he hung out with bad people.

Of course, the DUmmie will never be truthful about it. He just wants to surgically remove 50 police interrogations from time, space, and circumstance to make a political point.

Yeah knowing the DUmmies...this has all been one big lame bouncy.

[thundley4]

So what exactly was the point that Scorpio X was trying to make?

His point was that he is an Angry Black Man^TM with a chip on his shoulder that was put there by liberals and built up by hate speech from black leaders.

[txradioguy]

His point was that he is an Angry Black Man^TM with a chip on his shoulder that was put there by liberals and built up by hate speech from black leaders.

Ahhh ok gotcha.