Posted on 05/15/2023 8:31:21 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
I received a text message while I was driving home last week. I sent a quick reply while I was at a stoplight, but then received another message. I was near a country club, so I decided to pull into its parking lot rather than text and drive. (I act responsibly every now and then.)
As I texted, I noticed that a young man, who was obviously an employee, drive by in a golf cart. After seeing me, he swung his cart around and parked perhaps 10 feet behind me. He was looking down initially, appearing to type something into his phone. We made eye contact after a few seconds.......
Still seething, I turned around and headed back to the club so that I could confront the manager. I arrived, hurriedly exited my car, and headed towards the entrance. A total of three young men, all of whom were white, were parked in golf carts near the entrance. I was going to rush past them on my mission to give the manager a piece of my mind. I would also tell him (certainly it would be a white man) that I would never consider becoming a member of that club. (It would have been a moot point; I don’t like golf.)
At that point, everything changed.
The young man with whom I had made eye contact said, “Sir, do you need a ride back to the course.” In an instant, I realized that he had not profiled me. Neither had he taken down my license plate number to report me as “suspicious”. He had been merely killing time on his phone while waiting to see if I needed his assistance. I thanked him, and somewhat sheepishly responded that I was heading inside.
(Excerpt) Read more at thyblackman.com ...
From what I see blacks can mostly freely enter dominate white area (e.g. Trump rally) and have no issues, but I avoid dominate black areas.
No kidding! Blacks can go pretty much anywhere. Whites, not so much. My sympathy is over.
So I’m NOT going to think, I’ll just react emotionally and assumed everything is racism because that is how I have been programmed since birth.
TYPICAL....I wonder if the gets worked up if his fast food order is wrong??
Copy that. Every little thing that goes wrong is always put down to racism.
Sometimes even black people can be a$$holes and be treated as such, not because of the color of their skin, but because of the content of their character.
The democrats have deliberately and intentionally racheted up hatred and suspicion among blacks for whites, and among Hispanics for “Anglos.” Then the dems taught them to blame their failures on Whitey or those Anglos, absolving them of any responsibility for their actions.
Or Climate Change.
Or Orange Man Bad!
He should try being a white kid at a majority black public high school. Or maybe a white person on the Subway in Brooklyn late at night. Or a suburban white woman driving through the South side of Chicago with a flat tire on a Saturday evening.
The exact same possibilities exist - only much higher.
I believe that the preponderance of racism in our country comes from black people and that most of those blacks reside in our large cities.
The democrats have deliberately and intentionally racheted up hatred and suspicion among blacks for whites, and among Hispanics for “Anglos.” Then the dems taught them to blame their failures on Whitey or those Anglos, absolving them of any responsibility for their actions.
^^ THAT ^^
Are there people out there that have it in for them? Maybe. But do not jump to that as your first conclusion.
To be frank, most people do not care about you at all.
Larry is right I don’t understand. I don’t live on the knife’s edge always looking to be offended. I don’t live my life looking through a racial lens. But I do know that Larry can feel safe anywhere he goes if the area is predominantly white. I can’t feel the same way in areas heavily populated by blacks.
The younger generation, for all of their foibles, are not as racist as those prior. They do not see race. (unless they are black and you are a white person driving through the ‘hood)
I am tired.
Spot on. The worst thing that can usually happen to a black person going into a predominately white area is that they might get "profiled."
For the reverse, the white person has a reasonable chance of not leaving without being threatened, robbed, molested or even killed.
I'll take the indignity of being "profiled" any day.
In other words, those who believe "racism" is always a possibility, will always find it...
That is absolutely true. In fact, I will say anti-racism and pro "diversity" has been so hammered into young kids' brains, there's a sort of reverse-racism in effect - many white people under 35 view blacks as a preferred, protected and anointed race.
“...blame their failures on Whitey...”
Well, Jao, who is nearly as white as a sheet, IS a large part of their problems.
“avoid dominate black areas”
It was a real unintended benefit when pretty much every mid to large city now all a have MLK boulevards........an area White folks know for sure to steer clear of if atcall possible.......no telling how many lives have been saved. 😏
“..We made eye contact after a few seconds.....
Still seething,..”
I understand the point you’re making, and it’s a helpful reminder not to presume too much too quickly or always jump to the same conclusions.
But, there seems as though a small piece of the story is missing.
...made eye contact... (then suddenly) Still seething.
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