Sometimes it’s in the forefront of my mind — gutting, angry, mournful — as in the days after Ahmaud Arbery was chased and fatally shot. Sometimes it’s in the far corners, background noise, but still inescapable.
"When will be the right time to explain to a 9-year-old the wariness that comes every time I lace my clunky green sneakers and pad through the streets in our almost entirely white Seattle community?" @kurtstreeter writes. https://t.co/rnW8jAtEWs pic.twitter.com/6sk9eOk289— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) May 18, 2020
I would like to see an article on black joggers in Bill and Hillary Clinton’s hometown of Chappaqua.
The cops would get a call from half the houses the jogger ran by....
Some pigs are more equal than others.
Seattle may seem like the most racist place in the country. But, in reality, the whole USA is homicidally racist.
Where’s the three weeks running national coverage of this crime?
Tell him his father is cowardly racist man child seeking attention.
From my own perspective, I find this really hard to believe. Unless those interviewed ran through severely racially prejudiced areas, which would be democrat controlled bot begin with.
If we lived in a city and a black guy ran past our home dressed in the garb runners typically wear, I’d think nothing of it, probably would not give it a good look.
Now there probably is some merit to the story. Statistically speaking, in some neighborhoods, there are thugs that shoot, steal, rape and sell dope that fit such a description. Our prisons are flooded with them. So if that type of a threat were nearby, I’d check out the person running too.
All that stress, and they still don't think not to break into homes while jogging?
This excerpt made me literally LOL.
Reads like a romance novel. Anyway, lol.
And this is in Seattle?!
Kurt Streeter covers sports at The Times. He primarily writes features and essays, and has a particular interest in stories related to race, gender and social justice. Prior to coming to The Times in 2017, he was a senior writer for ESPN. He also covered the inner city for the Baltimore Sun and spent 15 years at the Los Angeles Times, where he wrote about everything from crime to transportation to religion, and also was a columnist. A former athlete, in younger days Streeter played college tennis at California Berkeley and was world ranked by the ATP Tour for three years. He lives on the west coast
https://www.nytimes.com/by/kurt-streeter
What about the Central Park jogger? She wasn't black. Turned out to be a pretty dangerous pastime for her too.
What about the elderly couple who were shot dead while visiting their son's grave in Maryland? "Mourning While White." I must have missed that headline.
Spare us your racial scab-picking, Slimes.
Stop putting all that nasty ink all over the paper and just sell it as a toilet paper substitute. Just until the shortage passes ...
New York Times, now do this:
Visiting your sons grave while white; our readers respond.
If he’s so afraid to run in white neighborhoods, why doesn’t he go and run in a black neighborhood? Is it because he knows that black neighborhoods are far more dangerous than white neighborhoods?
Dad, here, WANTS to feel bad, so he does feel bad.
If he were the big thinker he likes to play at being he’d forget about what some tiny percentage of whites thinks about him and focus on the damage Blacks do to THEMSELVES. Hating Whitey ain’t a life plan.
Running While Black and Loyally Voting Democrat from baby momma wanting child support.
Running While Black in a white neighborhood of a nation in which there are almost twice as many black on white murders as there are white on black murders, even though blacks are number 3 in population. Obviously to Democrats it's because whites are racist.
Me too!
As a Caucasian male, I often found myself thinking WTF am I doing running here?
Stationed in Atlanta, DC, Houston, St Louis and other urban areas.
I think the treadmill was invented for this reason.
NYT: Running While Black: Sounds like the NYT is doing a spin on the old driving while black gig.
I may have missed it, but i have not sen a single story in the past year of a black man getting shot while out for a jog, where they did nothing but jog and were shot WHILE jogging.
Arbery was not shot ehile jogging.
He was shot while physically attacking a man with a gun. There is no evidence suggesting he would have been shot or touched if he had just kept running.