Sounds like he succeeded. ;-)
Come on up to NW Arkansas. We have lots of Mexicans besides us honkies and luckily that’s it! And we all get along just fine thanks!
The guy had his own paper towels and only asked for ONE DOLLAR??
This should have been an amicable deal. Clean windshield for a dollar.
Sad that it became confrontational and the conversation on the difference in skin tone resulted.
Try smiling at strangers - it works;0
leadership? they won’t do anything.
Americans need to stand up for themselves and say no.
in this case, club him and hold him for attempted theft / extortion.
Let me explain to you how this works. Black people are black people. Brown people which are non black or black people who can pass as white are not black people. They don’t know about slavery or racism. They only count when there is an election or a strike. But they are not a minority. They are just people who steal black people’s jobs and black people’s hand outs. And if your white you are racist. And Asians are right out. Even though Asians may have picked more cotton than all the slaves in America and they may have done it in the last one or two generations, their plight does not register.
This isn’t new. 25 years ago at a MARTA station here in Atlanta a drunk black guy started harrasing my sister for $5 while we were buying tokens. Blacks have been trying successfully to intimidate whites for money since time began.
Your only problem is technique. Do not try to reason with black people. In your best Sam Kinnison voice yell “GTF away from me”. That’s what they understand. It worked for me at the MARTA station and countless other times. :-)
It’s not racism. It is desperation. That is a dangerous thing.
Many of those street corner/off ramp/intersection panhandlers make pretty good money selling flowers or washing windshields.
A DFW TV station did a special on them in the early 1990s. One guy said he made around $25,000 per year panhandling. That, of course, was tax free and no deductions, except for the paper towels/window cleaner or 5¢ rose. That was certainly a ‘living wage’ in the early 90s.
BM: Because I'm black.
JWG: So?
BM: So? You're ancestors enslaved my ancestors.
JWG: No, while your ancestors were swinging in the trees, mine were out making civilization (Jews)...
End of true story.
Today, a white man refusing this kind of demand could easily be killed. In the late 60’s one could still speak his/her mind openly without fear...
No!
The victim who approached you was black. Blacks can't be racist. Thus no hate crime.
On the other hand, your thoughts questioning whether this was a hate crime, proves you are a racist and thus YOU committed a hate crime against a black man by your thoughts.
(do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
Frightening and awkward. I’ve been placed in similar situations.
Addressing yours, I’ll guess that he managed to score his free taco from the lady vendor after you paid and received yours, and that’s a shame. She’s not in business to serve intimidating beggars.
Were I you, I would have just left and gone to another place for food. I think it’s better to avoid conversing with beggars, particularly those who don’t immediately accept “NO” for an answer.
Your guy was too pushy and too argumentative. He was determined. I think he finds success whenever he employs intimidation.
My policy now is to immediately leave whenever I spot a beggar approaching. I negate all chances for encounters. I reside at the beach, so they’re everywhere. On restaurant row, I’m
a lot more brave because the street is filled with other people.
Sir, if I were a racist, I’d want you to die. I don’t want you to die. I just don’t care if you die. There’s a difference.
And his position is not criticized by many other black Congressional leaders.
Black Congressmen refuse to condemn Ellison's past proposal for a black State"
Maybe this is the way we should go. The blacks seem to expect whites to give them Affirmative Action and various social program handouts for EVER.
We have this insufferable black leadership group in the USA that is created via the affirmative action programs.
I, along with other whites, Jews and Asians, spotted the black kids in my (private) high-school class at least 200 points on SATs and .5 in GPA. This was just common knowledge, the college counselors could tell you the cut off scores for having a shot at various schools, depending on your race.
My kids, 30 years later faced the same sort of biased-for-black Government Supported Discrimination.
We've been trained to view this as "normal". How many generations are we supposed to disadvantage our own kids to lift up a group that seems not very interested in, or able to, lift up themselves? As things now stand the grand-kids are going to be going to less advantageous schools compared to similar achieving blacks. So, apparently this is permanent.
And, obviously, as whites become only another minority, the effect of this state-sanctioned discrimination on each individual is increased. It's not that bad to let 1 out or 20 people step in front of you in line, it's much more of a problem to let 10 people step in front of you in line. Particularly when their are only 10 seats available.
You can look at South Africa to see that we should have no expectation of ending any of this. Even as only 15% of South Africa whites ae discriminated against constantly.
It's not just Government and Schools either, it's also large corporations:
Should White Men Work for Fortune 500 Companies?
So: on the one hand we have black street thugs intimidating people on a daily basis. We've surrendered entire cities to the black underclass, with defacto "no whites" zones all over America. We've spent trillions on welfare, we've burdened ourselves and our kids with Affirmative Action and still we have blacks who are unhappy.
We have several Black Congressmen (!!!) saying that Blacks need their own state.
Maybe they are right.
Blacks racially profile white people all the time so they can hit them up for money. They do seem to prefer older white folks who may feel particularly vulnerable due to previous bad experiences.
That’s sounds just like Austin. The cops wouldn’t help if you would have called because the city coddles that behavior. I lived their twice, glad I don’t anymore. You are a brave soul to be behind enemy lines in that city.
Conceal to carry a gun. Carry it holstered under your jacket. When someone like that accosts you just let them see it. Problem ends immediately.
2. Never leave your pistol in your car.
3. Do not engage in conversation. Just politely say no thank you.
4. If he keeps it up move to your car and call the police. If he gets aggressive get in your car and leave then talk to the police.
5. As I recall Austin is a lib cesspool in a Red state. You probably don't want to go in front of a jury as a Cracker for refusing to feed, then shooting a black man after he begged for food./Sarc
This started happening to me decades ago in Pittsburgh. Surly, aggressive black thug panhandlers. It used to be people would be taken off the streets, either hospitals or jails. Now, they have taken over in many places.
Leadership needs to step in and indicate that all of this needs to stop.
You can't legislate or direct away craziness.
Toughen up.