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  1. My point is making this thread was because there's a sense that something different has been going on with blacks (and POCs) since November 2016.  I'm not sure if technology has just made us more aware or what, but as a black guy, shit just feels...different.  And then we get evidence of some of this stuff and it just makes you angry.  Could I be next?  Some of these incidents are clearly just white people calling the cops on random black people for nothing.  But I'm 100% honest in saying that there are incidents across the country where blacks, Latinx, and whoever else did something wrong and should be rightfully arrested as so. 

    I guess my purpose in starting this thread is to allow those who don't believe stuff is happening or who refuse to believe it (or who say "i've never see that") to see that yes, it's happening.  I think where anger comes into play is those who say these are isolated incidents. 

    Very rarely in these incidents (Starbucks, Yale, etc.) do we see cops sticking up for people of color.  Where are more of those stories?  Seems like POC are automatically labled as suspicious.  Rough and harrass first, then ask questions later. 

    This is from my perspective.  I'm also a minority...a minority who has his insurance card literally taped to my car visor so a cop won't think I'm reaching for something. (then again i'm light skinned and sophisticated.)

     

    I dunno...just wish more people would realize something is going on instead of saying "the same thing would happen if they were white."  If that's true, where are those tapes? 

  2. 1 hour ago, Spankytoes said:

    Because they know what's coming...which completely defeats their position. It's easier to blame arrests in the black neighborhoods on targeted racism than actually admit that nefarious illegal activities constantly take place and perhaps that's what the problem is. That maybe the reputation of the neighborhood itself dictates the feelings of personal safety for citizens and law enforcement based on actual criminal activity.

    The purpose of this thread is to say "Here are examples of whites possibly being racist and transitive properties makes ALL transgressions against blacks a racist act!" Some people buy into the bullshit because they are trying to show how not-racist they really are. Some of us are smart.

     LOL no it's not.  You're smarter than this. 

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  3. On 5/6/2018 at 4:53 PM, maninblack said:

    Does Chicago give a shit

    Yes, but you didn't bother to do your research which isn't shocking.  Instead, you opted for a funny quip.  

    Homicides are down 25%

    Shootings are down 30%

     

  4. And another one [/dj khaled]

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/05/08/nordstrom-rack-called-the-police-on-three-black-teens-who-were-shopping-for-prom/?utm_term=.d4c66d6ce28f

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    Nordstrom Rack apologizes after calling the police on three black teens who were shopping for prom

     

    Three black teens shopping for prom at a Nordstrom Rack in Brentwood, Mo., near St. Louis, faced the police after store employees suspected they were shoplifting, calling further attention to incidents of racial profiling in commercial spaces over the past month.

    Nordstrom has since apologized, and on Tuesday the young men met with Nordstrom executives to discuss the incident and work on ways to prevent them from happening again at company stores. Still, St. Louis NAACP President Adolphus Pruitt, who had met with the young men beforehand, told The Washington Post earlier on Tuesday that he and the young men knew an apology will not be a permanent solution.

    “These kids, they’re owed an apology, but at the end of the day, it goes down to what can we do to keep this from happening to folks,” said Pruitt, who has met with them. “After all of this was said and done, Nordstrom cannot fix society on its own as it relates to these stereotypes.”

    Pruitt said the young men met with company co-president Blake Nordstrom, President of Nordstrom Rack Geevy Thomas and Farrell Redwine, Nordstrom’s vice president of human resources. Pruitt said the executives personally apologized and “praised the young men for how they handled the entire situation.” The teens were accompanied by their parents, grandparents, the NAACP and their attorney, who was not named.

     

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  5. American Airlines passenger: ‘The cops were called on me for flying while fat & Black

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/04/30/american-airlines-passenger-the-cops-were-called-on-me-for-flying-while-fat-black/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8459e0d05155

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    When Phillips sat down, her arm rested next to that of the passenger in the adjacent seat, she said. Their arms were touching.

    “I was thinking, I really hope she doesn’t treat me mean,” said Phillips, 28, who lives in Washington. “She was fidgeting, and finally she looks at me and goes, ‘Can you move over?’ ”

    Phillips told her: “No, I actually can’t. I’m in the window seat.”

    Phillips said she noticed the woman was growing increasingly annoyed at the tight space they were in.

    They got off the plane at Reagan National Airport and headed to a shuttle bus that would bring them to a terminal.

    Phillips said she was surprised moments later when a flight attendant announced that she was calling the police.

    An officer with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police arrived and approached Phillips and told her to get off the shuttle, she said. He told her he was called for an assault investigation and asked her some questions. After a few minutes, the officer told both Phillips and the other woman they could leave. The incident delayed Phillips about 30 minutes, she said.

     

  6. https://thegrio.com/2018/05/08/black-student-yale-police-nap/

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    Black Yale teaching fellow Lolade Siyonbola says her white neighbor took the extreme measure of calling the police when she fell asleep in the common area of the building where they both live.

    Siyonbola uploaded two videos to Facebook. One showed the neighbor filming her and telling Siyonbola that the common room is not for sleeping. The other video was of her interaction with police once they arrived.

     

  7. Probably needs to be a forum and not a thread.  There are many examples over the last month, so I'll begin here...

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/airbnb-black-women-police.html

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    Ms. Fyffe-Marshall said the officers came out of their cars, demanding the group put their hands in the air. At first, the renters “joked about the misunderstanding,” she said, but the situation escalated after 20 minutes when a sergeant arrived.

    The sergeant didn’t know what Airbnb was, “insisted that we were lying about it and said we had to prove it,” Ms. Fyffe-Marshall said. She showed the officers their booking confirmations and called the landlord, and the group was detained for 45 minutes, she said.

    https://twitter.com/theGrio/status/993476103422529536

     

     

  8. 44 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    Not meaning to pick on you but I do not get this mindset at all.  Do successful, high income earning black people not exist?  Why couldn't a black person support Trump?  While I'm on my soapbox this idea of the black community is a complete fallacy.  Every town that has black people living in it has a black community and there are going to be differences and variables between all of them.  There is no the black community.  There are thousands of black communities but they are not some Borg like monolith who have assimilated all of their members into the same organism.   This is one thing I can't stand about liberals.  They act like all minorities are clones of each other who all think and feel the same way about every issue(incidentally, that would be the same way white liberals think those minorities should think and feel about every issue) and then they turn around and call anyone who disagrees with them close minded and racist.

    You just described Republicans/Conservatives. 

  9. 45 minutes ago, sidis said:

    then why is it he has the bizarre mental health breakdowns like clockwork when he is about to release a new album?

    every single time.

    Read my post above.  He hasn't had bizarre mental health breakdowns for every album release until after 2008--after his mom died. 

    He wasn't like this early on. 

  10. 2 minutes ago, sidis said:

    does this guy have an impending album release?

    not that hard, folks...

    Kanye doesn't need promotion for an album.   This has nothing to do with promotion and everything to do with mental health. 

  11. On 5/2/2018 at 8:19 AM, Amobie said:

    That's where the communication broke down and a lot of that is Kanye's fault.  He's using an analogy to make his point by saying we are in a mental prison and slaves in our own minds.  That context matters. 

    He is saying that focusing on slavery today is a choice.    There are no individuals alive that lived through the period where blacks were slaves in the USA but we are still talking about it as if it was last week.  It's a choice whether or not we make the harm inflicted upon us become part of our cultural identity.

    To Kanye, this is a psychological hurdle the black community needs to overcome.  That's what his whole Candace Owens plug was all about and it's pretty sad that they are twisting what he's saying like this.  Overall, his message is very positive and forward thinking.  Let go of the past and break free of the chains of lower expectations.

    I think this sums up what angle he's going for.  He just needs to work on the delivery so it's not taken out of context.

     

    I sure hope you aren't saying that letting go of the past means whitewashing history and making everyone forget that slavery ever existed. 

    And as a representative of the race in question, I'm not sure what "slave mentality" Kanye  and  some posters here are talking about. 

    Kanye has been clear about his mental issues and addiction and has even stated that he seeking help "through family and friends" which is the wrong way to go about because they'll tell you you're fine when you aren't. 

    Kanye's problem also is he thinks he's a god and if he says something or adds his name to it, things will magically change. (See: his comment about the MAGA hat)

    His sit down interview with CTG was interesting.  It explained a few things, but not by much.  And it doesn't excuse his comments and his love affair for Candace Owens. (Who mentions blacks are mentally weak, but doesn't explain how or why she's come to this conclusion.)

     

    And let's be clear--Kanye isn't the most popular rapper today and he won't be ever again.  That time is gone.  However, The College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation and half of 808 & Heartbreak were clearly his best. (And noticeably, all of those albums came out before his mom died, which is precisely the time he went batshit crazy.)

  12. 1 hour ago, Lat22 said:

    Who are the intolerant ones again?

    I'm not even sure what you're trying to imply here.  And I don't want to assume...

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