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Black man tried to intimidate me for money yesterday
Personal experience | 30 November 2016 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

Posted on 11/30/2016 7:35:02 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

It has never happened to me like this before. Yesterday, I stopped at a little taqueria just east of Austin to get something to eat. As I was waiting, a big, stocky black guy holding a roll of paper towels under his arm came up to me and asked me if I wanted my windshield cleaned for $1. I said, "No, I'm good." He kept on, saying "Hey, just give me $1. Can't you see I'm trying to work to get money for a taco?"

I politely declined, telling him my finances were tight due to car repairs and trying to pay for school for my son. He began to get upset and then looked at me and said, "You're racist!" and some other babble I didn't quite catch. He looked at my wedding ring and said he used to have one, but he sold it. I asked him, "How can I be racist if my wife is a native of Mexico?" "Why would I marry a Mexican if I were racist?" He shot back, "She's not black!"

The poor little woman in the taco trailer told him she'd make him a taco for free(to shut him up) and he settled down. Now, my question is this: Is this a hate crime, trying to extort money off of people as they go to a taco trailer trying to get something to eat? What if I were to have tried that on someone? Police probably would have been called. This has left me with a really bad taste in my mouth. I blame Obama and all Democrats for this. They have so divided people that a lot of blacks have been enabled in treating everyone else in an abusive manner. My CCW was in the car which kept me from telling the man what I wanted to tell him and things probably would not have ended well for the street thief. How sad to put oneself in a position to die over trying to extort $1 off of someone. This nation is going to hell in a handbasket.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blackman; intimidate; money; panhandling
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I have literally had about all of this I can take. Leadership needs to step in and indicate that all of this needs to stop.
1 posted on 11/30/2016 7:35:02 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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"Leadership needs to step in and indicate that all of this needs to stop. "

Not going to happen soon.

Some people are just not going to learn to leave others alone. Starting with 0bama on down.

2 posted on 11/30/2016 7:38:12 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much wwork to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The people in the taco trailer are probably working very hard in order to keep themselves going. Then some guy who is probably too lazy to work thinks they ought to support him.


3 posted on 11/30/2016 7:39:10 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I pointedly ignore these cretins.


4 posted on 11/30/2016 7:40:18 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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The thing to do is act like you’re deaf and mute. Just point to your ear and shake your head.


5 posted on 11/30/2016 7:40:26 AM PST by struggle (The)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Buy the man a taco. Talk to him about Health Insurance.


6 posted on 11/30/2016 7:40:39 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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My CCW was in the car which kept me from telling the man what I wanted to tell him.

I would have chambered a round and make sure he saw it. I'm old and don't care!

7 posted on 11/30/2016 7:40:54 AM PST by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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its too much to contain..
I was walking to a government lab in Richmond Va and was accosted by hoards of beggars, i kept walking and at the end of the gauntlet a black guy jumped up in front of me and told me to give him money, I said no and he said he would kill me if I did not..I decided not to beat him to a pulp and kept walking until I found a police officer about a block away..I explained what happened and he said, go away, we cannot keep up with all of them..just deal with it..


8 posted on 11/30/2016 7:41:16 AM PST by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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made


9 posted on 11/30/2016 7:41:21 AM PST by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

How was the taco?


10 posted on 11/30/2016 7:42:38 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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Tell him you thought president Obama was supplying the tacos.


11 posted on 11/30/2016 7:43:01 AM PST by boycott (S)
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I found a police officer about a block away..I explained what happened and he said, go away, we cannot keep up with all of them..just deal with it..

Really? Unbelievable what has happened and what is going to happen.

12 posted on 11/30/2016 7:43:22 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Why would you talk to panhandlers.

Big mistake.


13 posted on 11/30/2016 7:43:48 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I don’t carry cash. When they ask, I say, “Do you take plastic? It’s all I have.”


14 posted on 11/30/2016 7:43:52 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Just a suggestion, keep a video enabled device on you, ready to go at all times.


15 posted on 11/30/2016 7:43:59 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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Ithe guy needs to learn some manners. I don’t think the guys who clean windshields exactly use the majority of that money for food. Gas stations and convenience stores attract a lot of scammers, selling gas when its really water, I’m trying to get enough money for a bus ride, the will work for food guys, etc...I’d rather they just ask me for money to buy alcohol or drugs. I understand desperation but that sounds like an entitlement attitude not desperation. Carry when possible.


16 posted on 11/30/2016 7:44:04 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: gr8eman

I carry in my door panel for just this sort of thing. If the guy should try to escalate, the gun will come out. I have to be legally justified, however.


17 posted on 11/30/2016 7:45:04 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: gr8eman

My .380 LCP is always chambered and in my pocket holster and 2 extra mags in my other pocket. Does you no good in the car. You may not ever need it, but if you need it, you REALLY need it. Ladies, don’t keep it in your purse. First thing they take.


18 posted on 11/30/2016 7:45:13 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I reckon it is best at times to say nothing.


19 posted on 11/30/2016 7:45:47 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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Obama wrote and told a story about his grandmother similar to this. She was approached by a black man panhandling on a bus, and it frightened her. She came home and told her hubby about it. Her Husband told her she was upset over nothing, the future President said “it was an example of his grams being racist like all white people.” The quotes are not perfect, but the story is true and in one of “his” books.


20 posted on 11/30/2016 7:46:02 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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