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Only in Massachusetts Would Police Stop a Single Black Driver More Than 70 Times
The Root ^ | January 19, 2023 | Kalyn Womack

Posted on 01/19/2023 1:39:36 PM PST by grundle

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To: grundle

Maybe it’s because he was flagrantly violating traffic laws 70 times? I’m no pleader for Massachusetts, not by a long shot, but such people do exist. Especially in locales where there’s absolute impunity for serial violators. I wouldn’t be surprised if Massachusetts is such a locale.


21 posted on 01/19/2023 2:17:38 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Vermont Lt

“It sounds like Worcester has a problem.

Worcester has lots of problems.”

One problem is that they talk funny. They call that town “Woo-ster”. It looks like “war-chester” to me. I’m not sure how they get “Woo-ster” out of that combination of letters...

Maybe this black guy kept on saying “war-chester” and the woo-sterians got bent out of shape?


22 posted on 01/19/2023 2:18:08 PM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: MeganC

“See, when you want to see REAL racism you don’t go to the South, nope, you go look for Northern Democrats.“

Absolutely true.


23 posted on 01/19/2023 2:34:24 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day)
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To: MeganC

“See, when you want to see REAL racism you don’t go to the South, nope, you go look for Northern Democrats.”

That’s exactly right. I remember the northern school integration even though I was pretty much a kid. I was surprised by the reaction because, despite what the 1619 Project says, I was taught in the south that we were the racists. Biden is a perfect example of a real, old time racist, as much or more than I’ve ever seen in the south. People don’t see it, though.


24 posted on 01/19/2023 2:35:01 PM PST by suthener
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To: glorgau

“Gotta remember that liberal jurisdictions are the most racist.”

Case in point: Martha’s Vineyard.


25 posted on 01/19/2023 2:35:35 PM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: HIDEK6

My thoughts exactly


26 posted on 01/19/2023 2:36:07 PM PST by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW) )
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To: EEGator

👍


27 posted on 01/19/2023 2:36:57 PM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Track9

Martha’s Vineyard is not racist .

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28 posted on 01/19/2023 2:39:42 PM PST by Mears (.)
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To: Magnum44

That’s funny.


29 posted on 01/19/2023 2:40:52 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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To: grundle

I live in St. Louis, where they rarely enforce any traffic laws, so I would think 70 times in 8 years is just a bit excessive.


30 posted on 01/19/2023 2:41:12 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: MeganC
See, when you want to see REAL racism you don’t go to the South, nope, you go look for Northern Democrats.

I used to work for a company in South Carolina that eventually got bought out by a New York company. They came down telling us in meetings how racist we are. When I went to New York for some meetings, I was shocked how racist the people were up there.

31 posted on 01/19/2023 2:42:53 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: grundle

I’m calling official B.S. on this guy. Sorry, but the cops just don’t pull over innocent people on a monthly basis. You know there has to be more to the story, and “The Root” certainly won’t tell us.


32 posted on 01/19/2023 2:44:53 PM PST by bort
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Worcester, Massachusetts

Wuh-stir is the best way to pronounce it. For true Central Massachusetts folks, it is Wuh-staaaaa.Aug 14, 2016


33 posted on 01/19/2023 2:50:54 PM PST by deport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_electiYou)
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

I would bet you would love pronouncing:

Gloucester

Leicester

:-)


34 posted on 01/19/2023 2:52:39 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: MeganC

Dick Gregory famously said that in the north, they don’t care about how big you get as long as you don’t get too close. In the south, they don’t care about how close you get as long as you don’t get too big.


35 posted on 01/19/2023 2:52:53 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: bort; All

It depends how important fines for various trifling traffic offenses are to the city treasury. There are numbers of (albeit mostly small) towns and cities that derive a significant part of their operating revenues from fines and collateral remissions from traffic citations. Here in the swamp state the fine city of Washington, Louisiana is particularly notorious for this practice as are a number of towns west of Lake Charles who have annexed a small sliver of parish land that interstate runs so their LEOs can pull motorists over for such offenses as lane change without a signal or most popular ‘following too closely’.


36 posted on 01/19/2023 2:59:02 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: grundle

They are not showing his car. I am guessing one look at his car would tell you why he is always getting pulled over.


37 posted on 01/19/2023 3:01:28 PM PST by poinq
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"You pulled me over because I'm black."

"Uhhh, no. With tinting like this on your windows no one can see you. But we clocked you at 65 in a school zone."

"Like I said, you pulled me over because I'm black."

38 posted on 01/19/2023 3:01:31 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: grundle

Whatever, I have been stopped at least that many times.

Even once on a bicycle for “speeding”

once with the cops drawing down on me cause my tabs were expired.

Luckily none in the last few years.

Where I lived once the cops would harass anyone with a car older than 6 years.

One of them pulled over Bill Gates and gave him a ticket for not having proof of financial responsibility.

(the ticket was eventually dismissed, and the cop was fired soon after.)


39 posted on 01/19/2023 3:03:03 PM PST by algore
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To: MeganC

You’re exactly right. I lived in communist Massachusetts for about 15 years and they love to cast dispersions on the South like the Democrats like to cast dispersions on Republicans. They are far more racists and wannabe fascists there than in Georgia/Tennessee where I grew up and now live again.

Boston is still fairly well racially segregated and surrounding suburbs too. In the 70’s they were the most racially segregated city in the USA. You just took your safety in your own hands going into some neighborhoods after dark if you weren’t the right ethnicity, be it Italian, Portuguese, Black, etc.

I know a few black people in MA as friends and they come to visit and are afraid because of the hype they’ve been raised with in lying Massachusetts’ culture about Georgia and Tennessee.

I tell them to relax, this is the birthplace of civil rights and you’ll be more at home here than in most places in Massachusetts. Half our neighbors are minorities and we all thrive like good neighbors should. Enjoy the hospitality.


40 posted on 01/19/2023 3:06:42 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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