Fearing being mistaken for criminals, people of color shy away from homemade face masks

Miami Hurled ^ | April 8 2020 | Dawson White

[SoFloFreeper]

...some people of color say they won’t be wearing homemade masks for fear they could be perceived as criminals....

[Aaron] Thomas wrote that he’d planned to cover his face with an old bandanna to run to the grocery store, but thought better of it, writing that for him, “the fear of being mistaken for an armed robber or assailant is greater than the fear of contracting Covid-19.”

...."I do not trust that I will be allowed to exist in my Black skin and be able to buy groceries or other necessities without a confrontation and having to explain my intent and my presence. I do not trust that wearing a make-shift mask will allow me to make it back to my home.”

[SoFloFreeper]

Unbelievable. Turn a public health recommendation into a racism issue.

Tiresome.

[Migraine]

Besides, that nylon stocking thing doesn’t really stop germs.

[catnipman]

maybe this would help:

[Tax-chick]

"I do not trust that I will be allowed to exist in my Black skin ...

No normal person of any race, ethnicity, or species talks like that.

[dead]

How dopey. Two days ago, I was putting a mask over my face and pulling gloves on before walking into the supermarket, and I thought, "Two months ago, I would have been arrested at the door."

It's a different world. It doesn't matter what color you are. Put your mask on and quit whining.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Crap. Hoodies in, face masks out?

[tinyowl]

Every problem and every fear every minority has ...

... is your fault.

[Mears]

The Boston Globe is FULL of this racial crap.Unbelievable.

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[fhayek]

If I might..., exactly whose fault is it that certain races are treated with suspicion? I mean, maybe if the focus was directed toward the perpetrators instead of those who hold the suspicions, we might have progress.

And this includes the BLM crowd too. I mean, the people who murder African-Americans are, overwhelmingly, African-American.

[manc]

good grief. I am so sick of this crap.

Stirring up the black issue before an election, not a surprise at all.

[Carriage Hill]

Idiots.

[higgmeister]

Fearing being mistaken for criminals, people of color shy away from homemade face masks

And the Miami Herald does not see that it's headline is racial stereotyping and is the height if pandering to the deranged sycophant minions.

[BlackAdderess]

Actually I’ve been making ones with teddy bears on them that black guys have been happy to wear.

[richardtavor]

People of color? What color? Orange? Orange man good?

[NotSoFreeStater]

Every black person I saw today at Costco was wearing a mask. Several looked homemade.

[tomkat]

Brilliant !

[dp0622]

If they wanted to avoid that theyd have to make themselves white LOL

[absalom01]

It’s probably racist of me to make this observation, but I was just out of the house on an essential errand (really), and my purely anecdotal, unscientific observation is that there is a disparity of mask wearing among different (percieved) racial groups.

It seemed that plenty of black, white and Latino people were wearing masks. The only stand-out I saw was every single Asian person I saw was wearing a mask of some kind.

[mabarker1]

OH PULLLLEEEZZ !!! ENOUGH OF THE race card BULLS}{IT KEEP THE HOODIE TOP OFF AND MAKE A HEADBAND THAT SAYS “JUST WANT TO BREATHE”

AND MEANWHILE THE BITC}{ THATS THE “HEAD” OF THE demonratcommiescumbags VIRUS TASK FORCE CAN’T EVEN PUT A MASK ON CORRECTLY !!!

I wantMy Old America back, NOW !!!

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Can’t blame Whitey for that.