Being Black in Public: When you’re black in America, you’re either seen as a problem [tr]

Slate ^ | April 19, 2018 | Jamelle Bouie, Gene Demby , Aisha Harris, and Tressie McMillan Cottom

[KittyKares]

Maybe they expected the person they were waiting for to pay for their coffees.

[JimRed]

...you’re either seen as a problem OR WHAT? I don't click on Slate.

[chief lee runamok]

It’s not a post traumatic stress disorder tressie described. It is a transparent disorder of low self esteem, apparently, tragically, suffered by many black people. According to tressie.

[stylin19a]

found another article where the third person showed up as they were being arrested.

[EdnaMode]

The left sees racism everywhere.

[Crucial]

Yeah, like white spaces are allowed. What planet is this guy from?

[thoughtomator]

Just look at the per-capita crime stats - if you’re not of an opinion that the Left would call racist, then you’re not paying much attention.

[Redwood71]

I have two things on my mind about this one. Did the two people arrested take up space that would have been used by paying customers and were asked to vacate? And this is a real set up. If you notice in the picture provided, behind the protesters, there is a guy with a television camera filming the “protest.” I wonder how many of the protesters are extras there to create news film for the 11 o’clock run? And this time their still picture actually proves it was set up before it started so the cameras had time to get there and plug in.

If you can’t enlighten them with the truth, baffle them with B.S.

rwood

[metmom]

Poor little snowflake.....

[dfwgator]

Back in the eighties, my mother and I, looking for a place to eat, opened the door to a Pioneer Square diner. About five black guys looked up at us. The guy behind the counter said "we're closed". Pretty sure that was a black space.

"Otis, My Man!"

[Lee25]

I don’t know if blacks know this. The Starbucks incident would segregate blacks even further in people’s minds. They may think they won. In fact they lost. Incidents like this will make people to believe that blacks want to be exempted to laws. They don’t want equilty. They want to be above laws

[I want the USA back]

Being White in America. When you’re White, you’re either seen as a problem or a criminal. You are profiled whenever you are in a public space. Anything you say or do, or don’t say or don’t do, is subject to being branded as a hate crime, and you have no recourse. Your guilt is proven by your skin shade. Don’t deny it. You have White Privilege and you are a cracker a$$ cracker. The poc has the right to beat on you, as long as it’s called the knockout “game.”

[PsyCon]

It a “latch-on” disorder...too easy to claim.

[Rinnwald]

Perfect!

LMAO

[Rinnwald]

Great minds think alike, you and dfwgator.

[bgill]

Mr. b propped his head on his arm on top of his luggage as he sat on a bench in front of the San Antonio airport waiting for me to pick him up a couple years ago. Security acted like he was a homeless bum sleeping at their front steps. Maybe he should have sued. Instead, he showed them his LE badge. No, he didn’t look like a bum. One kid on the plane thought he was zoo keeper on tv - can’t think of his name.

[Boogieman]

“This time it was imagined, but quite often it is real.”

Then how come it seems most of the time when a big public incident is made of it, it is either “imagined” or they are found to have done something to bring it upon themselves?

[Cronos]

I don’t know.

[Cronos]

Yes, these statistics --> here "Black people, including African American and people of East African descent, make up 18 percent of the population in Minneapolis and 40 percent of the stops included in MPD’s dashboard"

Now before you go on, I know that statistics can be manipulated in different ways. I also agree that cops have a reason to profile - if it seems most criminals are elves, they will stop elves

My point was simple - no matter what the underlying cause (criminality in the black community or whatever), for a law-abiding black man it is irritating to be stopped over and over

If I was in that position I'd be irritated. To give you an example - when I travelled to Cambodia my wife and I were continuously targeted by street vendors to buy stuff from them because of what we looked like - it was ok the first 3 times, but when it was 5 times daily it was irritating.

And that's just being pestered to buy stuff.

now I'm not pretending to say I know the solution, but I can sympathize -- even if tomorrow black crime ends completely, then there will still be a short time before the authorities stop profiling (with reason -- if I'm a copy I would do exactly the same and this also keeps the places safe) - and this is NOT cop-bashing, what the cops are doing is correct as they are authorized to keep the peace. But I can sympathize.