Madness. Madness.
Posted on 05/10/2019 5:56:02 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Recently, I witnessed a young black male cut across my yard, duck between my neighbors’ two cars and try the doors of both, before “breaking” into the unlocked one. I opened my back door and yelled, “I see you getting into that car!” He took off running. I called the police and then posted to the (admittedly sometimes racially charged) Nextdoor app, in the hopes that my neighbors would check the locks on their cars and homes.
Break-ins are fairly common in my neighborhood, and this isn’t the first time that I’ve witnessed what appeared to be a theft and called the police. It was, however, the first time I was certain the suspicious person was a black man. I immediately felt a pang of guilt for calling the police and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, given the tragic way things too often end between police and people of color.
I feel an obligation to my family and my neighbors to report crimes. But I’d rather have my car broken into than have a person’s life ruined by my 911 call. And honestly, I don’t even know if it’s a crime to open someone’s unlocked vehicle.
If the incident had been a forced entry or violent in any way, I would feel less torn about having called the police. And really, people should know better than to leave their cars unlocked. I sincerely hope the young man wasn’t apprehended but instead was just scared off and won’t lurk around my home again. But what if he had been arrested? I also shudder to think how many young black men vaguely matching his description were harassed by officers after my call.
Did I do the right thing by calling the police?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Lord have mercy...PC, brainwashing, MSM, our education system, Hollywood et al are all complicit in this nonsense.
Right. Here’s what you sadsack White-guilt burdened a$$hole should have done:
Yell out to the intruder your words of apology for being White and racist. Invite him to go to your car and take what is rightfully his, after all, you’re the oppressor.
When he has had his fill, bow down in abject submission and thank him for not killing you.
Would it have made any difference if he had been a tall man, a dirty man, a man with a bad leg, or even a man at all? A description doesn’t do any more than help identify who is in the area and was trying to break the law at your expense. So everyone comes out and looks to see if their cars are locked, and find that tall man, dirty man, etc. in their carport, are they not more on the alert with the description?
This is another racially charged article from the NY Times, who are notorious for this, with another covert attempt to make people feel guilty about being white. They use articles like this to create their diversity which is nothing more than to separate people and run their agenda. This is why they are running out of subscribers with their only protection coming from their digital subscribers. They’d be in serious problems without them. So let’s throw another racially misleading story out there to generate money as our hard copy subscriptions are dying and we need to support the cause.
rwood
And these idiots get to vote? SMH.
Simple: If it were a white person, would you have called the cops? I would think so, from the description of what happened.
What planet are you living on? :)
Can the opinions expressed even be real? Or are they red meat, hoping to stir up a “racist” response? In any event, it’s a great “vanity post”.
1. The writer’s own premise and worldview are racist. He/she had regrets only because of the race of the car thief. The only downsides they imagine are race-based, driven by propaganda. If innocent blacks are questioned about the crime, that’s the fault of the criminal. No break into cars, no police hunt for suspects.
2) Stopping crime is always the right thing to do. The writer knew that, and did the right thing in the moment. It was afterwards that the writer decided the criminal’s NEED to take stuff with impunity mattered most. The writer has been TAUGHT to think that was somehow virtuous.
3) If the writer must speculate, there are limitless alternatives to hand-wringing for race-based crime-coddling. Maybe stopping the guy from boosting the car prevented a high-speed chase ending in deaths and injuries; or it aborted a planned liquor store holdup with the clerk murdered; or the owners of the car losing their jobs for lack of transportation; or the owners coming out at the wrong moment and being shot by the SOB. Maybe if he’d been in jail, he wouldn’t have shot someone or taken a slug in a driveby. Maybe he was hoping to find a pistol in the glove box that he could steal and kill other black teens with.
The Leftists can chalk up a win; they have destroyed the writer’s innate sense of morality.
Two principles are involved:
In a free and rational society of natural rights, one has a natural duty to preserve and protect natural rights, such as private property rights.
True justice is first taking the responsibility of making a independent moral judgement of right or wrong, then acting in accordance with that judgment by giving that person what he rationally deserves.
My dog would be going ape-sh!t if someone was rattling around in a car in my drive way or on either side.
We had a neighbor whose teenage son would walk through the space between yards to come home from the next street over. I could tell my friend what time he kid came home every night in the summer because my dog went nuts.
But the fact of the matter is that I know my neighbors. I know who is “supposed” to be around and who isn’t. That makes these “calls” much easier.
I wonder if this dipwad would have felt OK calling the police if it was a white man breaking into the car?
What if it turned out that the white man was a trans-sexual? Would that have guilted the writer?
“..color of the car”.
Thanks for reversing what had started out to be a very bad day.
BTW are any of your avatar’s statues still standing?
He should of told the police ‘someone did something....’ and then his conscience is clear if someone hurt someone else!
:)
Was the inquiry made by Charles Schumer or any other member of the New York delegation to Washington DC.....AOC? or even a member of the Albany (NY) Times-Union Editorial Board?
Well no, not in New York its what they do.
It’s a thief, black, white, brown, yellow, somewhere in between. What the color of the thief is shouldn’t be a factor. Good luck with calling the cops.
I once lived in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia which is not far from the dividing line of the ghetto North Philly. It was a common sight to see in the morning lines of cars with windows smashed to grab whatever possible. It was “part and parcel” and police could do nothing or would do nothing about it. The a-hole mayor at the time declared Philadelphia to be run by “brothers and sisters” and they were the MAJORITY but always cried minority and blasted any “gentrification” as whites tried their best to keep neighborhoods clean and crime free.
Notably absent is the concept that the man breaking into the auto is responsible for his action and its consequences.
It is patently insane to think that the person witnessing the crime is responsible.
That a person could write this piece with a straight face is illustrative of how mentally defective liberals are.
No, you did the wrong thing. The correct thing for you would be to commit seppuku by hanging yourself in front of your house. Be sure to place a placard on your chest announcing "Racist." Leave a letter, for those who find you, that you can no longer live with your shame and conflicted morality.
Madness. Madness.
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