Posted on 05/28/2018 5:22:58 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Last month in Philadelphia, a white Starbucks manager summoned police officers to confront a pair of African-American men after one asked to use the restroom before he had purchased a drink. About two weeks later, at Lake Merritt Park in Oakland, Calif., a white woman called police to report a black family that was grilling food for a picnic.
In both instances, the victims were accused of violating laws or rules governing conduct in commercial establishments and public spaces. In the first case, it was for trespassing or loitering. In the second, it was for using a charcoal grill outside of the designated areas.
“Quality of life” laws serve as a potent instrument of racial segregation. They provide commercial establishments, law enforcement officers and everyday citizens with tools enabling them to police racial boundaries while at the same time claiming to simply be upholding the law.
In contrast to the Jim Crow laws of America’s dark past, these laws supposedly apply to everyone. But in practice, they clearly don’t. Like most middle-aged white people, I have spent countless hours in Starbucks without buying anything. Plenty of white people have barbecued, blasted music and drunk alcohol at that same Oakland park, without anyone calling the police.
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I do my “hanging out” in Waffle House. I get a cup of coffee for an exorbitant price then sit so long as I like. The coffee is $2 and that is rental on a seat.
NYT cries JIM CROW because Negroes are more apt to be non-paying “customers” and thus over-represented in that group that is asked to leave. BYT does not have a good impression of Negroes in that NYT, when speaking of them defaults to the “shiftless” assumption.
I have not spent 5 min i9n a starbucks
When I need to use the facilities in a convenience store I buy a cup of coffee first or a snack or something. I do not fear being refused because such stores rarely do that, even when one has to ask for the key, but I just feel like I am using their services and the price of a cup of coffee is something I owe for that.
It’s interesting to note that all of Dr. Kahrl’s examples occurred in liberal bastions, Oakland, CA, Philly, and Connecticut. The irony seems lost on him.
More fake news and lies designed to brainwash the uninformed further.
““Quality of life” laws serve as a potent instrument of racial segregation.”
Oy. So let’s just scrap them all?
Principal Spooner: “Lisa, what are you so offended about?”
Lisa: “Whaddya got?”
I feel that Star Schmucks creates a racist prejudicial atmosphere against White Conservatives and Libertarians. Black Asian and Hispanic ones too!
“Quality of life” laws serve as a potent instrument of racial segregation.”
Because whites are racist if they don’t want young thugs walking around cussing with their pants below their butts and doubling crime statistics across the board. Attention leftist POCs: Your culture stinks. Join the civilized world and be amazed at how your social problems turn around.
The leftists war against cooking meat over open flames.
Victims = Spin the chance to yell racism
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You go to the door. It’s locked so you go to the counter and ask for the code.
Oh, maybe. I’ve never encountered a locked door at a chain coffee house or restaurant.
He has no evidence that white people have bbq’d with coals in that park without incident. I lived for five years literally steps away from that very spot, and I don’t remember anyone ever bringing a charcoal bbq there. Most basically, there isn’t anyplace to dump the coals out.
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