Perspective: There's no cost to white people who call 911 about black people. There should be.

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 16, 2018 | by Stacey Patton and Anthony Paul Farley, The Washington Post

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Here are the things that black people can't do in the United States in 2018 without a white bystander calling the police on them: sit in a Starbucks coffee shop; eat at a Waffle House; work out at a gym; move into a new apartment at night; golf with friends; fly on a plane; barbecue at a park; shop for a prom outfit; buy a money order to pay the rent; check out of an Airbnb; or take a nap while studying at their Ivy League college campus.

When white callers dial 911 and report that black people are engaged in what they report as untoward behavior, the worst-case scenario is that the police will show up with guns blazing. Even in the best-case scenario, black folks will probably have to deal with the trauma of having been placed in mortal fear.

But most of the time, there is no consequence for the people who weaponize their fear and use the police as an extension of their whiteness. There should be.

It is naive to believe that white callers are not aware of their race privileges when they call the cops on "suspicious" black people. They are weaponizing their fears in a form of violence that buttresses a white-supremacist system. When white people see black people doing exactly the same sort of daily activities that they are doing, especially in spaces that they deem to be theirs, it frightens them so badly that they call 911.

At the deepest level, the callers and their enablers seem to feel black people do not belong, that we should not be allowed to be as free as whites.

This is their vision of America: calling 911, again and again and again, perpetually policing and controlling black bodies.

[lgjhn23]

Whadda bunch of outright racist BS.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
And, there’s always Zimbabwe or South Africa to go to. /S
I’m sure they’d feel a lot safer and better about themselves there IF it’s so bad here. Liberalism is a chronic, no-cure, mental disease.

[MortMan]

You may wish to reread the original statement. It is NOT a quote from Dr. King.

[Lurker]

These people are dangerously insane.

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[tinyowl]

Was on NPR yesterday - I assume it was the guy.

The lefty media machine is all one big machine. (preaching to the choir.)

[The_Media_never_lie]

Here are the things that black people can't do in the United States in 2018 without a white bystander calling the police on them: sit in a Starbucks coffee shop;

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The first sentence is a huge lie.

[I want the USA back]

OK, you piece of racist crap. ONE person called the police in a Starbucks, and you expand this to ALL. You can go to hell.

Your obsession with blaming Whitey for your failures is close to insanity.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“Here are the things that white people can’t do in the United States in 2018 without a black bystander” beating the hell out of them:

(the list goes on)

[Williams]

Just wondering is it possible to author a more filthy racist screed than this?

[Taxman]

LIEberals LIE!

[GOPJ]

I don’t have any data and this is just a hunch but I’d bet most 911 calls on black people are made by black people.

LOL - you're right... BUT those kind of comments destroy the fun of the nonstop pity party. The uglier truth is that as a percentage of population blacks overwhelmingly commit the most crimes of any demographics group - which might influence how they're seen in possible criminal circumstances.

That said there are hundreds of thousands of black citizens who "sit in a Starbucks coffee shop; eat at a Waffle House; and work out at a gym;" with no problem whatsoever. A testament to the fact that all of us make an effort to go beyond stereotypes - negative and positive ones - and treat each other with dignity.

[Unassuaged]

I assume this was the cause: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Z80znPKI8

They are calling her “BBQ Becky”

[DoodleDawg]

My bad.

[Gator113]

Any comment I would make about this moronic nonsense would most certainly be interpreted as racist....and that interpretation might indeed be correct.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I like that song generally but I’m cynical about the “I believe you love who you love ain’t nothing you should ever be ashamed of”.

[Feckless]

No, but there’s plenty of cost living with them. Fiscal, social, cultural, and safety costs are borne daily.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I love hearing from PhD-wielding blacks about how oppressed they are.

Notice this wench has been doing things for Al-Jazeera. And that’s OK to note in respectable publications, apparently.

[T-Bone Texan]

“Becky” is a racist term black people use to denote a young, white female.

[VanShuyten]

There is a cost to white people. White people pay the majority of the costs of the 911 system, the police departments, and virtually every other governmental benefit.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So much for “if you see something, say something”.

[elbook]

What conservative lives in San Francisco — Except under duress ? How many are left there (less than Christians in muslim countries ...)

So some ‘Chronicle’ reporter is seeing what he immediately sees around him — in what is one of the most Neo-Liberal cities in the USA ?

We have to conclude that Libtards are significant racists - afraid of the minorities they laud ‘out of the other side of their mouths’.

We cry for them.