Nutter said the piece was bogus because it depended upon “...white people who have used isolated negative experiences to draw perverse generalizations...”
After surviving three armed robberies, two commercial burglaries, and two instances of my AA neighbors helping themselves to the batteries in my truck, I guess I’ll now have to apologize to Nutter for the sin of having my personal experiences shape my “perverse” perceptions.
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Yep. I'm one of the ones who left Philly after 2 home invasions, 4 home robberies; a car theft, a street mugging, and a gunpoint mugging into the window of my car at a stoplight. And that's not counting the stalking by a felon, my kid being mugged walking near our house; being hit broadside at an intersection by a taxi driver, and another time breaking a rib when hit by an uninsured driver, who then proceeded to harass me to use his cousin to repair my car (I wouldn't); and being subjected to relentless doorbell-ringing and begging by a drug-addicted carwash guy who preyed on our neighborhood. OK, granted; that was over 30 years, with most of it concentrated more recently.
The only incident in which I'm not positive if the perp was "of color" is the car theft.
All this time, I was an aggressive proponent of racial equality, made sure our family attended a well-integrated church and scout troop, and hired blacks as often as possible (none of whom were involved in any of the above situations).
I got so tired of it. I moved to an 80% white suburb.
Things were pretty good out here until the helpful Democrat Party gerrymandered the new school building to be 95% black enrollement. A decade later, the neighborhood is now about 20% white; we have to have police in the schools and stores and a privately-funded patrol car in our formerly serene development where you used to be able to leave your doors open all night for some air. Now our community dues have tripled, because we have trash and broken glass in the streets, and today's residents don't bag their leaves or pick up their dog poop like before -- but that's ok for the newcomers, because the housing values have dropped and their mortgage payments are lower. We have to lock everything up and run the air conditioning -- not very "sustainable." Now, I get called "f'n white b*tch" or "racist" or "you think I'm your slave" over any small misunderstanding about entering a door first or second, or giving way or not giving way at a stopsign intersection, or when following the rules at my workplace when the rules don't suit a black customer's sense of entitlement.
I'm a little old white-haired lady now. Two guys in a car last summer thought I cut them off in traffic (I didn't -- they didn't read the lane markings correctly) and when they pulled up behind me at a traffic stop, they got out of the car and beat my car so severely with fists and feet that they totalled it, before the light changed so I could drive off. None of the eight or nine townspeople also sitting at the light got their license plate or reported it. A younger black lady on my block asks me twice a week to do some favor for her involving time and/or gasoline and has never once offered me a cent; you can guess what would happen if I refused the demands she makes "because we are friends."
Trouble is, there's no place to go.
I say this having made a number of cherished black friends over the years who are professional people like my family, and loving their children. But regardless of their moaning about the economy and even about gun control, they all vote Democrat without exception. I pointed out to one how healthcare would be rationed, and she said, "Nobody going to make ME wait!" She believes this. And if it's a waiting room, and it's her with a stuffy nose and the others are a dozen acutely ill or badly injured whites who arrived before her, she will be right.