Posted on 05/16/2018 1:16:38 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Remember that whole “if you see something, say something” thing? Forget it. Perhaps “if you see a white, heterosexual, Christian, non-handicapped male acting suspiciously, say something.” Otherwise, shut up. Because if your tip proves to be a false alarm, you’re in a mess of trouble for being racist, sexist, antigay and/or discriminatory in general.
So I cannot dial 911 if a trio of young Black men are robbing my house?
Okee-dokee.
Cop shows up to question them. Turns out two lesbians also seated in the area called the cops because they thought it was inappropriate for men to be with them.
The girls were their daughters.
Harassment by irrational and inappropriate 911 calls isn't just a racial issue!
Donald Trump received 37,688 votes in San Francisco in the 2016 general election.... including 1 from me.
“Becky” is a racist term black people use to denote a young, white female.
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From Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer ??
We set up an entire country - Liberia - for people who didn’t like it here.
Perhaps you’d be more comfortable there?
“There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs
— partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances,
because they do not want to lose their jobs. ... “
“There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well,
because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living,
but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
Booker T Washington
When’s the last time a white person called 911 regarding fast food? Just curious.
“Becky” is a racist term black people use to denote a young, white female.
Wow 37000 ... I guess God wont be destroying that evil city quite yet (tho that little Korean Homunculous still probably has it on his target list)
I just saw a black man loading an expensive motorcycle onto a trailer in an upscale neighborhood, so I called 911. Nah, I stopped and helped him. I’ve known him since gradeschool. What a horrible outcome for these race baiting weasels.
ok - just letting people know about the video that likely caused the article.
i don’t think they know who Becky Thatcher is! But its good as any guess.
There’s no cost to coddled professors in fake academic disciplines race-pimping and taking money out of other people’s wallets in the name of Social Justice, either.
There should be...
That the listed incidents made national news suggests that the premise of the authors is bogus. If it were common, it wouldn’t be news.
Yeah exactly!!!!
I’ll call 911 on any body I want....if they don’t like it, they can stop acting suspicious and stop being so antisocial and anti law and order and anti cop....
The reverse discrimination these days on a social and legal level is stunning.
Judging from black-on-white crime statistics going back many years, that ethos has been in full swing for a while. I do not apologise for being suspicious and exercising even more caution and situational awareness if I somehow (and I live my life to try to ensure it doesn’t happen) find myself amongst a number of blacks I don’t know, or alone, as in a quick stop type store, with one.
For that matter, I’ve been panhandled almost every other day for about a week now (must be the summer season cranking up), and each and every time it was a healthy young black male. This was at “normal”, everyday stores, like grocery shopping. I just keep walking, with my hand in my purse.
New ad campaign:
If you see something and if it is politically correct to do so, say something!
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