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I’ve Been Social Distancing From Racism
The New York Times ^ | May 26, 2020 | Ernst Owens

Posted on 05/26/2020 2:10:00 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

During a recent session conducted over Zoom, my therapist told me I was “glowing.” In the middle of a pandemic.

I struggled to explain why until she prodded, “No crazy experiences with white people this month?”

“Not that I can immediately recall,” I replied.

That’s when it became clear: I’m doing better these days because staying home alone and practicing social distancing has meant I’m avoiding many of the racist encounters that used to plague my daily life.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: bigot; blackkk; ernstowens; jackass; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; race
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
If you're a nail everything looks like a hammer.

Cut off in traffic?

It's 'cause you're black.

NYC cabbie swore at you for walking against the light in front of his cab?

Grocery clerk that had to use the restroom was in a hurry?

Doctor wouldn't treat your hangnail without an appt.?

No seats on the subway?

It rained and you didn't have an umbrella?

41 posted on 05/26/2020 2:50:08 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: GOPJ
"I don’t miss the way my palms get sweaty as a cashier requests to see multiple forms of ID."

Sounds like BS. ID is not required for most purchases, usually only for cigarettes and alcohol. All they ever ask for is a driver's license. I'm decades away from being 21, and I still get asked for ID for these kinds of purchases.
42 posted on 05/26/2020 2:54:02 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

So much racism out there...that people keep having to hoax/create it.


43 posted on 05/26/2020 2:56:23 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Watch for the unrelated story, in which Ernst Owens endorses the candidacy of Joe Biden.

44 posted on 05/26/2020 3:03:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

They blame white Republicans.


45 posted on 05/26/2020 3:04:13 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: EEGator

We stacked about 30,000 square bales a year by hand. My dad was a cattleman and horseman, so we had really good quarter horses from the late 50’s on, on my days off, we broke colts to ride, ours as well as neighbors and on Sunday showed horses.


46 posted on 05/26/2020 3:09:15 PM PDT by allwrong57
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
So much racism out there...that people keep having to hoax/create it.

One of my wife's six sisters was sure she was being singled out whenever she went shopping, because she is Hispanic. Yeah, I know, singling out a Hispanic woman in Texas?

The "problem" went away when she married a white guy from New Braunfels, who had a German last name. lol

47 posted on 05/26/2020 3:10:27 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sheeyit, I’m blacker than that Carlton and I’m 100% European.


48 posted on 05/26/2020 3:11:36 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Poster child...African Americana Back Slapping Above The Fray, Self Enlightened, Self Righteous, Grandstanding, Over Educated, Progressive Liberal Fagtard...


49 posted on 05/26/2020 3:11:52 PM PDT by Professional
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

She should get out of the House and go Birdwatching in Central Park.


50 posted on 05/26/2020 3:12:06 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: allwrong57

The one, and only, time was at this horse farm we used to ride at. Maybe drank some beers too.
My one good story from there was I was barefoot, maybe some beer, and jumped on a horse. My buddy comes up and slaps him on the ass. Didn’t spill...


51 posted on 05/26/2020 3:13:13 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Lol, you’re such a lame poster. Are you their Ambassador?


52 posted on 05/26/2020 3:13:22 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: All

NAGA PLEASE!


53 posted on 05/26/2020 3:13:31 PM PDT by ssfromla
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To: Kickass Conservative

Just looked at the Pic.

Oops, I thought is was a Woman.

Well, he does look like a Womanly Man, so there’s that.


54 posted on 05/26/2020 3:13:39 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Sounds more like what would happen if you tried to purchase something with a personal check, which nobody in the Western hemisphere does anymore, except, apparently, this jabroni.


55 posted on 05/26/2020 3:14:14 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EEGator

Yup, pegged the meter.

https://www.phillymag.com/author/ernest-owens/


56 posted on 05/26/2020 3:14:37 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Boogieman

Lol, I grew up in DC and ATL; I used to say I’m blacker than Obama.


57 posted on 05/26/2020 3:14:55 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Last name is not Arabic or X, Y, Z, so I would guess no. Just a dork.


58 posted on 05/26/2020 3:15:17 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Btt


59 posted on 05/26/2020 3:15:57 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: EEGator

I have no idea how many I’ve been on, until the last couple of years I rode 10 or 15 hours a week working cutting horses, so rode probably 150 different ones a year, mostly 2-3 year olds, and are real athletes of the horse world.


60 posted on 05/26/2020 3:19:21 PM PDT by allwrong57
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