Tressie McMillan Cottom: I have post-traumatic stress disorder at this point with videos of white people doing horrible, routine racism. Like a lot of black people, I suspect, reading the latest on this primed all the emotions of my experiences of being profiled or othered in white spaces. And then you deal with the inevitable shock from white people, which in its way only reinforces how utterly hypervisible yet invisible we are. The constant shock to white sensibilities is part of the black trauma.
Playing my Planck length violin.
What the author is seeing is a learned, not innate, response to reality.
“waiting for the arrival of a business partner”
Hmmmm hmmmm
White spaces? What is a black space, pray tell?
And isn't the biggest part of profiling to fit the profile? Loud, showy, demonstrative, resentful. Are we noticing you because you're black or are we noticing you because you constantly attempt to draw attention?
OK black person, even if you're not a criminal, I'm going to suppose you're a criminal and act accordingly.
There is also the fact that a lot of the white patrons began protesting against the arrests. Why is nobody viewing that as a positive example of white actions? Why isn’t it being talked about at all?
Isn’t that what they want whites to do, vocalize and do something when obvious racism occurs? Or does it diminish their narrative and throw some reality on the whole thing?
When I was in my late teens, I was waiting in line to get on an Amtrak train. The police pulled me out of the line, broke open the lock on my trunk and searched it — pulling everything out and putting it on the ground in the middle of the station. Apparently they were told to be on the lookout for a teenage drug carrier and I guess I looked the part. They didn’t find anything, didn’t apologize and simply left met to put everything back together and rush to catch the train. What’s the point? Everyone has encounters where they are treated badly. A lot of people have dealings with the police where the police may not be as sensitive or polite as they could be. Most people just deal with it and move on with their lives.
Tell Tressie to get an old piece of brown cardboard and write something like “need money” on it, then go stand at a traffic intersection. That’ll make her feel better.
Playing my sub-Planck length violin, something so tiny not even Planck could describe it.
SB is a full far left outfit, supporting every lefty whacko idea and policy that comes up from the sewer.
My schadenfreude meter is pegged........................
The “fate”the men saw was millions of dollars, costing a woman her job, just by being cheap inconsiderate bastards. Imagine using a coffee house for a business meeting and you can’t buy a stinking cup of coffee.
The Starbucks incident was simply - two people decided to sit at a Starbucks without buying a single thing and not leaving when asked. It wasn't hard -- they could have bought a small coffee.
“The constant shock to white sensibilities is part of the black trauma.”
Doomed if we’re shocked, doomed if we’re not.
White people are so confused and don’t know how to act.
This is why that barista - Zack - looks catatonic.
“Hypervisible yet invisible...”
Makes perfect sense.
/s
Go into a restaurant sit down at a table and then don’t order anything. They are probably going to ask you to leave. Why should Starbucks do things differently?
Imma have a conversatin witchew
I ignore everyone.
So, to some black people I am ignoring their “blackness”?when really I am treating you just like everyone else.
Although, that is probably racist.
Whenever I need a rational piece of info, I nearly always turn to “slate” to get it. No matter if it’s gun rights or any other civil right. LOL! NOT!
I have noticed the phrase “post-traumatic stress disorder” popping up in more and more articles of this type, signifying a PTSD type reaction to normal daily stresses.
Is this going to be the future health care issue? People who would never go anywhere near a battlefield claiming the same type of injury as someone who has seen a little hell in their time?
There was a video I saw during the election season of 2004 where a union meeting occurred. A union member stood up and claimed that his twenty years on the production line were just as hard as a soldier doing twenty years and that he deserved life time medical care just like the soldiers.
I did not break the TV, but I did do a lot of yelling at the TV, and the guys around me were kind of put off their meal. The TV was in a chow hall in Iraq and we were between shifts at the POW compound.
Four writers?
Must be a ghost writer in there somewhere.
No way Slate could find four sentient beings who could put together a sentence without hand gestures and crayons.