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It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« on: March 28, 2016, 02:29:58 PM »
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The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black

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My parents immigrated to Canada from Freetown, Sierra Leone, in the mid-1970s. I was born in Red Deer, Alberta, and soon after, we moved to Oshawa, where my father was a mental health nurse and my mother a registered nurse who worked with the elderly.

He's from Canada. Liberal safe place.

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2. I saw this first hand when I was 14.

In a group of 6-7 asshole kids the cop put the two black kids in the car. It took me the next day to learn exactly why that happened.

He's from Canada.

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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

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He's from Canada

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Star Member wildeyed (8,516 posts)
7. Absolutely. Great post.

Waaaay back in the day when I was late teens or early 20's, I recall that I either read or heard something on the radio about how we are all a bit racist, just because of the culture that we live in.

What I have come to believe is that racism is like air. It is there, it has mass, but because it is invisible, we don't think about it much, almost like it doesn't exist. So when I read this article, initially, I was like NO way! *I* am NOT racist! I have black friends! I live in a predominantly black neighborhood and city! But then I thought, Hey let's find out to be sure. So I observed my internal reactions, and was quickly realized, that yep, I was stereotyping black people, particularly black men who were poor and young. Since then, I make a conscious effort to be aware of my interior attitudes. Because the air I breath is dirty with racism, it makes sense that it gets inside me sometimes. So I work to clean it out.

I wish more white people would get this concept, that we are all a little bit racist, but that we can make an effort to improve. If enough of us make an effort together, then the air will get cleaner, and THEN we will make actual progress.

He's from Canada.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2016, 03:33:55 PM »
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The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black

Ri-i-i-i-ight.

* How many of those "interrogations" never went past, "Could I see your ID?"

* How many of those "interrogations" were part of an investigation of a crime to which MrS may have had links?

* How many of those "interrogations" were part of an investigation of a crime to which MrS had been IDed by a witness or to which MrS had been linked by physical evidence or stolen property?

* In how many of those "interrogations" did the cops jump out of the bushes or from behind a billboard?
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2016, 03:52:53 PM »
He is counting traffic stops for speeding etc.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2016, 03:54:41 PM »
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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,
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2016, 03:58:17 PM »
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7. Absolutely. Great post.

Waaaay back in the day when I was late teens or early 20's, I recall that I either read or heard something on the radio about how we are all a bit racist, just because of the culture that we live in.

What I have come to believe is that racism is like air. It is there, it has mass, but because it is invisible, we don't think about it much, almost like it doesn't exist. So when I read this article, initially, I was like NO way! *I* am NOT racist! I have black friends! I live in a predominantly black neighborhood and city! But then I thought, Hey let's find out to be sure. So I observed my internal reactions, and was quickly realized, that yep, I was stereotyping black people, particularly black men who were poor and young. Since then, I make a conscious effort to be aware of my interior attitudes. Because the air I breath is dirty with racism, it makes sense that it gets inside me sometimes. So I work to clean it out.

I wish more white people would get this concept, that we are all a little bit racist, but that we can make an effort to improve. If enough of us make an effort together, then the air will get cleaner, and THEN we will make actual progress.

I am "smartist."  I am 100% completely prejudiced against stupid people.  By stupid I don't mean genetic intelligence.  I know plenty of Downs' Syndrome people smarter than the DUmp monkeys (low bar, I know).
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2016, 04:02:40 PM »
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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.

Does anyone speak Gibberish? I need a translator.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2016, 04:09:03 PM »
TygrBright will be offended on your behalf. :whatever:
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2016, 04:28:14 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on March 28, 2016, 04:09:03 PM
TygrBright will be offended on your behalf. :whatever:

Is that her meaning? How will I be able to tell the difference? DU-folk seem to be offended by the half of the world that disagrees with them, the quarter that doesn't give a @#$% about what they believe, and the remaining quarter who agree with them 99.999% of the time, because of that .001% disagreement.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2016, 04:28:37 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on March 28, 2016, 04:02:40 PM
Does anyone speak Gibberish? I need a translator.

Gibberish? No.

Jive? Yes.

Axe me any tin.
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Because only the left goes searching for that which is not there in a desperate attempt to be offended about something.

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Many people do not see evil until the gas is flowing into the chamber. That is why they get on the trains in the first place.

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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2016, 04:34:14 PM »
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So I observed my internal reactions, and was quickly realized, that yep, I was stereotyping black people, particularly black men who were poor and young.

I stereotype everyone. Saves me a ton of money.

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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2016, 04:37:41 PM »
Quote from: Patriot Guard Rider on March 28, 2016, 04:28:37 PM
Gibberish? No.

Jive? Yes.

Axe me any tin.

Oh, good! I've need one ever since Barbara Billingsley died in 2010.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2016, 04:39:27 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on March 28, 2016, 04:37:41 PM
Oh, good! I've need one ever since Barbara Billingsley died in 2010.

I'll give you rate quote. I don't speak that sh*t for free!

:lol:
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Liberals disgust me. (Now I don't have to remember to put it on each post).

Because only the left goes searching for that which is not there in a desperate attempt to be offended about something.

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

Many people do not see evil until the gas is flowing into the chamber. That is why they get on the trains in the first place.

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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2016, 04:47:04 PM »
Quote from: Patriot Guard Rider on March 28, 2016, 04:28:37 PM
Gibberish? No.

Jive? Yes.

Axe me any tin.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U[/youtube]
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2016, 04:51:40 PM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on March 28, 2016, 04:47:04 PM
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U[/youtube]

Yo dawg. White privilege over black street talk, huh?

Why post a movie with white people?

Why do you hate blacks?

:rofl:
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Because only the left goes searching for that which is not there in a desperate attempt to be offended about something.

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

Many people do not see evil until the gas is flowing into the chamber. That is why they get on the trains in the first place.

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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2016, 04:57:58 PM »
Quote from: Patriot Guard Rider on March 28, 2016, 04:51:40 PM
Yo dawg. White privilege over black street talk, huh?

Why post a movie with white people?

Why do you hate blacks?

:rofl:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJR2Q45Jvz0[/youtube]
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2016, 04:59:11 PM »
Quote from: Patriot Guard Rider on March 28, 2016, 04:51:40 PM
Yo dawg. White privilege over black street talk, huh?

Why post a movie with white people?

Why do you hate blacks?

:rofl:

What you talkin 'bout Willis??

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJC2gZW0KGU[/youtube]

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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2016, 05:12:12 PM »
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6. Thank you for posting this, MrScorpio

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

Give it a rest, 'tard, there's two.

"utter" and "bullshit".
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2016, 05:14:19 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on March 28, 2016, 04:09:03 PM
TygrBright will be offended on your behalf. :whatever:

 :-)  Just waiting for the right color of post.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2016, 05:15:46 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on March 28, 2016, 03:33:55 PM
Ri-i-i-i-ight.

* How many of those "interrogations" never went past, "Could I see your ID?"

* How many of those "interrogations" were part of an investigation of a crime to which MrS may have had links?

* How many of those "interrogations" were part of an investigation of a crime to which MrS had been IDed by a witness or to which MrS had been linked by physical evidence or stolen property?

* In how many of those "interrogations" did the cops jump out of the bushes or from behind a billboard?

How many of those 50 never occurred.

Most, if not all.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2016, 05:26:09 PM »
Quote from: 98ZJUSMC on March 28, 2016, 05:15:46 PM
How many of those 50 never occurred.

Most, if not all.

It might just be me, but I picture an interrogation as being in a room, with Gibbs, for 10 hours. THAT is an interrogation.
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Because only the left goes searching for that which is not there in a desperate attempt to be offended about something.

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

Many people do not see evil until the gas is flowing into the chamber. That is why they get on the trains in the first place.

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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2016, 06:05:44 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on March 28, 2016, 04:34:14 PM
I stereotype everyone. Saves me a ton of money.

I do too, but my stereotypes aren't based on skin color.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2016, 07:28:36 PM »
Whad I did?!?!?!  I din do nuffins!!!!  Gnome what I sayin?  Them rocks ain't mine. Somebody put them down my pants while I was crashing... gnome what I saying?  I done woked up and seen you homies and thought was you gonna kill me.  You feel me here?


This was an actual conversation between a LEO and black guy that ran from the cops. They caught him, searched him and found it stuffed down his pants. On camera. On national TV. The show is Cops on Spike TV.

Sorry black person, clean up your own race before you go crying to me about racism.  I have no sympathy.  None. Zero.

Does that make me racist? So be it.  Don't care if it was in canada. The problem is not your race, it is your culture.  Clean that up and then we can have a discussion.  Until then... FOAD.

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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2016, 08:10:28 PM »
This is just another immigrant whining, so why is Dorkio posting this? He should be out investigating the person that sent bravenak those letters as he said he would. Looks like the blowhard that he is again. I have been waiting and waiting for Dork's report.
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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #23 on: March 28, 2016, 08:31:48 PM »
Quote from: Tess Anderson on March 28, 2016, 08:10:28 PM
This is just another immigrant whining, so why is Dorkio posting this? He should be out investigating the person that sent bravenak those letters as he said he would. Looks like the blowhard that he is again. I have been waiting and waiting for Dork's report.

No kidding!! I'm closer to knowing who did it than the boy primitive is.

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Re: It's because I'm black, isn't it?
« Reply #24 on: March 28, 2016, 09:40:22 PM »
A steady stream of pseudo-victimhood...
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