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Perspective: There's no cost to white people who call 911 about black people. There should be.
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 16, 2018 | by Stacey Patton and Anthony Paul Farley, The Washington Post

Posted on 05/16/2018 1:16:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Here are the things that black people can't do in the United States in 2018 without a white bystander calling the police on them: sit in a Starbucks coffee shop; eat at a Waffle House; work out at a gym; move into a new apartment at night; golf with friends; fly on a plane; barbecue at a park; shop for a prom outfit; buy a money order to pay the rent; check out of an Airbnb; or take a nap while studying at their Ivy League college campus.

When white callers dial 911 and report that black people are engaged in what they report as untoward behavior, the worst-case scenario is that the police will show up with guns blazing. Even in the best-case scenario, black folks will probably have to deal with the trauma of having been placed in mortal fear.

But most of the time, there is no consequence for the people who weaponize their fear and use the police as an extension of their whiteness. There should be.

It is naive to believe that white callers are not aware of their race privileges when they call the cops on "suspicious" black people. They are weaponizing their fears in a form of violence that buttresses a white-supremacist system. When white people see black people doing exactly the same sort of daily activities that they are doing, especially in spaces that they deem to be theirs, it frightens them so badly that they call 911.

At the deepest level, the callers and their enablers seem to feel black people do not belong, that we should not be allowed to be as free as whites.

This is their vision of America: calling 911, again and again and again, perpetually policing and controlling black bodies.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: pantload; racism; reparations
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remember that whole “if you see something, say something” thing? Forget it. Perhaps “if you see a white, heterosexual, Christian, non-handicapped male acting suspiciously, say something.” Otherwise, shut up. Because if your tip proves to be a false alarm, you’re in a mess of trouble for being racist, sexist, antigay and/or discriminatory in general.


41 posted on 05/16/2018 1:45:10 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So I cannot dial 911 if a trio of young Black men are robbing my house?

Okee-dokee.


42 posted on 05/16/2018 1:46:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Was having lunch at a restaurant with open air seating. Two middle aged men with three teenage girls were at a nearby table. Guys making small talk with each other and the girls preoccupied on their cell phones.

Cop shows up to question them. Turns out two lesbians also seated in the area called the cops because they thought it was inappropriate for men to be with them.

The girls were their daughters.

Harassment by irrational and inappropriate 911 calls isn't just a racial issue!

43 posted on 05/16/2018 1:46:36 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: elbook

Donald Trump received 37,688 votes in San Francisco in the 2016 general election.... including 1 from me.


44 posted on 05/16/2018 1:46:59 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: T-Bone Texan

“Becky” is a racist term black people use to denote a young, white female.

From Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer ??


45 posted on 05/16/2018 1:47:41 PM PDT by elbook
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We set up an entire country - Liberia - for people who didn’t like it here.

Perhaps you’d be more comfortable there?


46 posted on 05/16/2018 1:48:26 PM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs
— partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances,
because they do not want to lose their jobs. ... “

“There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well,
because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living,
but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

Booker T Washington


47 posted on 05/16/2018 1:48:41 PM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When’s the last time a white person called 911 regarding fast food? Just curious.


48 posted on 05/16/2018 1:50:11 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: irishjuggler

“Becky” is a racist term black people use to denote a young, white female.


Wow 37000 ... I guess God wont be destroying that evil city quite yet (tho that little Korean Homunculous still probably has it on his target list)


49 posted on 05/16/2018 1:51:30 PM PDT by elbook
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
⚖🌞. Just-us for just us. Quit whining and do something constructive instead of spreading hate and discontent an divisiveness.
50 posted on 05/16/2018 1:51:36 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just saw a black man loading an expensive motorcycle onto a trailer in an upscale neighborhood, so I called 911. Nah, I stopped and helped him. I’ve known him since gradeschool. What a horrible outcome for these race baiting weasels.


51 posted on 05/16/2018 1:52:53 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

ok - just letting people know about the video that likely caused the article.


52 posted on 05/16/2018 1:54:46 PM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: elbook

i don’t think they know who Becky Thatcher is! But its good as any guess.


53 posted on 05/16/2018 1:58:07 PM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There’s no cost to coddled professors in fake academic disciplines race-pimping and taking money out of other people’s wallets in the name of Social Justice, either.

There should be...


54 posted on 05/16/2018 1:58:14 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That the listed incidents made national news suggests that the premise of the authors is bogus. If it were common, it wouldn’t be news.


55 posted on 05/16/2018 1:59:19 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: enduserindy

Yeah exactly!!!!


56 posted on 05/16/2018 2:05:06 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Jewbacca

I’ll call 911 on any body I want....if they don’t like it, they can stop acting suspicious and stop being so antisocial and anti law and order and anti cop....


57 posted on 05/16/2018 2:10:29 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The reverse discrimination these days on a social and legal level is stunning.


58 posted on 05/16/2018 2:17:04 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: CharlesOConnell

Judging from black-on-white crime statistics going back many years, that ethos has been in full swing for a while. I do not apologise for being suspicious and exercising even more caution and situational awareness if I somehow (and I live my life to try to ensure it doesn’t happen) find myself amongst a number of blacks I don’t know, or alone, as in a quick stop type store, with one.

For that matter, I’ve been panhandled almost every other day for about a week now (must be the summer season cranking up), and each and every time it was a healthy young black male. This was at “normal”, everyday stores, like grocery shopping. I just keep walking, with my hand in my purse.


59 posted on 05/16/2018 2:20:33 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

New ad campaign:

If you see something and if it is politically correct to do so, say something!


60 posted on 05/16/2018 2:21:56 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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