Black Man's eye-opening story about taking 'a black walk' in a white neighborhood goes viral

Mary!

Fuck the race troll is on lots of meth today

And as uncomfortable as you felt. Do you know what a white man feels walking through a black neighborhood?

R2 I’ve never ever ever been on LSA. I didn’t even know it existed until a couple of months ago when a racist (probably you) brought it up and I realized they (or you) bring it up every time something about black people is brought up.

R3 nothing. Most times they walk through and nothing happens. More times than the opposite

I took a white walk in a black neighborhood. My purse was stolen and I was thrown to the pavement by the kids who stole it.

R6 sure.

R5 And many times nothing happens when a Black man walks through a white neighborhood too.

R8 false. They’re harassed.

R4 This is a worldwide gay site. You endless obsession race seems misplaced here . Maybe share on facebluck for the virtue cookies.

R8 the difference between the two is most black people don’t pay any mind to a white person walking down their block. That’s the truth. They leave them alone as long as they’re not doing shit. MOST TIMES (not all).

White people DO pay mind if they see a black man walking down their blocks, however, and the slightest suspicion they call the cops, even if the black man is doing nothing.

The black people don’t run to the cops and try to cause havoc right away. If they find something off they approach the man themselves. White men call cops automatically KNOWING what will happen to that man.

Blacks much prefer to live in a Black community and Whites prefer to live in a White community and that is the truth so whats the problem?

OP, you need to brush up your writing skills. Ugh. You need to frame your story as less of a 'white-baiting' blog and more of a 'thoughtful black man' opinion piece.

R13 I didn’t write it. Moron.

R12 so then you agree whites should stop invading black and Hispanic peoples areas? Because I’ve been saying that over and over and the response from you and others is always the same pro white bullshit.

Op is a troll.

Lots of white folk supported justice for Travon Martin. He was walking back in his own stepparent's neighborhood, was harrassed and shot when he tried to stand his ground.

People in Russia must think Americans are really stupid to fall for this. We have black coworkers, friends, went to school with black folks, see black folks all the time, dated, married black folks. The list goes on. Trolls are so dumb. Just because you've never seen a black person in Russia. American blacks started all that hip hop your Russian Addidas loving people wear so STFU, grow a backbone and stop working for the Kremlin.

We're over you.

I don't like such things as rap or hip hop music, baggy clothes, or anything like that. I know a lot of white people are into that kind of sub culture and while I don't feel threatened by it personally, I don't seek it out either. I also know black people who not into that culture. I don't expect them to expend any more effort than I do in social situations and appreciate it.

Why all this race hate? Why cant we all live in peace with one another?

You guuuuuys!

Ignore the stupid troll and focus on interracial love! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Black dick is amazing!

Black boys are so juicy.

Interracial sex love!

The fact that (truth) the last nine crimes I've dealt with have been from a particular ethnic group does not prevent me from counting most of my friends among them.

Fuck you, OP. Go do a white walk somewhere.

Once with Black you never go back.

Black anus is nourishing

R22 Take a walk on the wild side.

R22 You want some 😘

The Blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

when DL comes together as a board to tackle race-bait trolls

This /never/ happens here so whenever I read this shit it's hard not to take it with a grain of salt.

R29 So Canada has no racial problems?

Long fat black cocks are neat.

There are good and bad people everywhere regardless of race.

This is the kind of stuff Dave Chapelle used to talk about before going full bore on gays and the trans.

R33 only the trannys mental

Can't we all just get along?

Take after Kegan's example!

R29: So because it doesn't happen in Canada, then it automatically follows that it doesn't happen in other parts of the world? That's some dumb logic.

The most accurate representation of white privilege is this: [bold}white people are given the benefit of the doubt.[/bold]

White person walking in an affluent neighborhood: he lives there. Black person walking in an affluent neighborhood: prowler up to no good.

White person shopping in a fancy store: left alone to do her shopping. Black person shopping in a fancy store: a suspect. Security must follow her.

White person driving a luxury car: it's his. Black person driving a luxury car: he stole it.

White person breaking his front door down: he locked himself out. No worries. Black person breaking his front door down: he's a burglar. Call the police. (This actually happened to Henry Louis Gates, host of Finding Your Roots. Returning home from a trip, he discovered his front door was jammed. While trying to force the door open, a witness called the police to report a burglary in progress.)

Why do people like 29 insist that because it hasn't happened to them, or because they've never seen such a thing, then it must not exist? Talk about willful ignorance.

This has happened to me a few times. My first job was in a predominantly white neighborhood. During lunch I dropped off some dry cleaning in one of the local shops and the lady said to me “You don’t live around here do you” when I said no she was visibly relieved. Once I was visiting a friend in his white neighborhood. I was sitting on his porch while he stepped in to get drinks. People actually stared as they walked by. They didn’t say hello. They didn’t smile. Just looked at me warily. I went inside. And I’m a black woman! And no I’m no “hood”. Just a college educated woman trying to make it in this world.

Let's try it again: [bold]white people are given the benefit of the doubt.[/bold]

So many ostriches on this site who never, ever want to hear about others or acknowledge the real world around them.

Pearl clutching prisspots who live in 2020 but act like church ladies from 1955, hushing any chat that might not be fittin'!

R39 Yawn.

R40 You would know.

I used to work for a dog walking company. We had a mix of walkers, some white, some Asian, some black. Most of the neighborhoods were affluent, not necessarily all white but mostly white, middle eastern and Asian. The black walkers had the cops called on them a few times. I never did.

OP, you should have said taking a "black male walk". No one is afraid of black women. Humans learn from their experience to be wary of people who might cause them harm. It's human nature to profile and quickly gage situations that might be a threat.....then make a decision: fight or flight. It's how we have survived so long as a species. People are fearful of young black males because they commit the majority of crimes. No getting around that fact.

Being fair, did he walk through a Hispanic neighborhood to see what happens?

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Let's show op how to have a good time!

"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then (I) look around and see someone white and feel relieved."

We live in a mixed race middle income neighborhood of 300+ homes.. All flavors of human live here:: black, brown, white and everything in between. Young and old. The kids play together, go to school together, etc.

They even let us gays live in the neighborhood.

There is no black walk/white walk/brown walk/Asian walk here.

I am sorry you all have

..something different!

Boris is working overtime today to divide whites from blacks in America.

#PrimaryMeddling

When you really stop & think about it, it’s so sad that white people live in terror of blacks. They’re held in bondage, in chains created in their own minds. Those chains are, however, a lot lighter, and longer than the ones blacks actually had, physically wrapped around their bodies, just because white men with money ran out of people to enslave in Europe, and had to keep pounding the pavement for new flesh.

Only a depraved people could sit with this at night, and be ok with it, yet terrified of a black man walking down the street.

It's a fact. I've seen it. I was waiting outside a house (upper middle class) for a friend. There were three of us in the car -- two white guys and a black dude. The police rolled up and wanted to know what we were doing there. Someone in a house had called them. It's sickening. I was embarrassed for my friend. The question that's never asked though is "Why?" Why does this happen. It's not fair and shouldn't happen. So why does it?

[quote] OP, you should have said taking a "black male walk". No one is afraid of black women. Humans learn from their experience to be wary of people who might cause them harm. It's human nature to profile and quickly gage situations that might be a threat.....then make a decision: fight or flight. It's how we have survived so long as a species. People are fearful of young black males because they commit the majority of crimes. No getting around that fact.

80 + percent of white violent crime victims are victimized by WHITES.

Whites fear nonwhites not because most whites have been victimized by them. Whites fear nonwhites because of antiquated white supremacist stereotypes. For example, most rapes are not perpetrated by a nonwhite stranger, jumping from the bushes. In most cases the victim is acquainted with the perpetrator.

Large numbers of people believe that all gays molest children. You wouldn’t dare claim those bigoted feelings are the result of firsthand experiences. Yet you and the other brain dead bigots will come here everyday and defend and attempt to justify your white supremacist racism.

White supremacist racism elected Donald Trump. Whites would rather burn this country to the ground, rather than support racial equality. And that is exactly what is happening. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Whites are more likely to be harmed by another white person than a black or brown person, by up to an 80% chance. White people also need to stop with the “whites don’t commit crimes” when over 80% of children being raped are by... WHITE MEN.

I would much rather rub shoulders with a black man that stole something from the store than a white man fucking a 2 year old.

Whites don't walk through Black neighborhoods. They know better.

Baltimore. Interesting interactive statistics by race.

I have a group of friends that includes several black men and one black woman. We were all out grilling and partying in my yard in the white hood. My one friend noticed the elderly neighbors looking at us disapprovingly and intoned in a rich authoritative baritone, “ this place is teeming with negros, teeming I tell you.” He was a drama student and is very theatrical. We were laughing hysterically and now when I see a black person walking around in a white place, I say “this place is positively teeming with negros, teeming I tell you!” It’s tragi-comic I guess.

R56 Go take a stroll with your white friends along South 8th Street in Camden NJ and report back to us about how it went.

So, for those who keep acting like whites deal with it as bad... here is the FBI breakdown of Hate Crime Victims... Blacks are #1 victims of Hate Crimes in this Country

Here is their breakdown of Victims...

By bias motivation (Based on Table 1.)

An analysis of data for victims of single-bias hate crime incidents showed that:

59.6 percent of the victims were targeted because of the offenders’ bias against race/ethnicity/ancestry.

18.7 percent were victimized because of bias against religion.

16.7 percent were targeted because of bias against sexual orientation.

2.2 percent were victims of gender-identity bias.

2.1 percent were targeted because of bias against disability.

0.7 percent (61 individuals) were victims of gender bias.

Further examination of these bias categories showed the following details:

Racial/ethnicity/ancestry bias (Based on Table 1.)

Among single-bias hate crime incidents in 2018, there were 5,155 victims of race/ethnicity/ancestry motivated hate crime.

47.1 percent were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-Black or African American bias.

20.1 percent were victims of anti-White bias.

13.0 percent were victims of anti-Hispanic or Latino bias.

4.1 percent were victims of anti-American Indian or Alaska Native bias.

3.4 percent were victims of anti-Asian bias.

3.4 percent were victims of bias against a group of individuals in which more than one race was represented (anti-multiple races, group).

1.9 percent were victims of anti-Arab bias.

0.5 percent (26 individuals) were victims of anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander bias.

6.5 percent were victims of anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry bias.

Religious bias (Based on Table 1.)

Of the 1,617 victims of anti-religious hate crimes:

56.9 percent were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-Jewish bias.

14.6 percent were victims of anti-Islamic (Muslim) bias.

4.3 percent were victims of anti-Sikh bias.

3.9 percent were victims of anti-Catholic bias.

3.2 percent were victims of bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group).

2.7 percent were victims of anti-Other Christian bias.

2.4 percent were victims of anti-Protestant bias.

2.0 percent were victims of anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other) bias.

0.9 percent (14 individuals) were victims of anti-Hindu bias.

0.7 percent (11 individuals) were victims of anti-Mormon bias.

0.7 percent (11 individuals) were victims of anti-Buddhist bias.

0.6 percent (9 individuals) were victims of anti-Jehovah’s Witness bias.

0.5 percent (8 individuals) were victims of anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias.

6.7 percent were victims of bias against other religions (anti-other religion).

Sexual-orientation bias (Based on Table 1.)

Of the 1,445 victims targeted due to sexual-orientation bias:

59.7 percent were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-gay (male) bias.

24.9 percent were victims of anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (mixed group) bias.

12.2 percent were victims of anti-lesbian bias.

1.7 percent were victims of anti-heterosexual bias.

1.5 percent were victims of anti-bisexual bias.

Now here are the people committing those Hate Crimes

Offenders

Race

In 2018, race was reported for 6,266 known hate crime offenders. Of these offenders:

53.6 percent were White.

24.0 percent were Black or African American.

6.9 percent were groups made up of individuals of various races (group of multiple races).

1.3 percent were Asian.

1.0 percent were American Indian or Alaska Native.

0.3 percent (19 offenders) were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.

12.9 percent were unknown.

[quote]So, for those who keep acting like whites deal with it as bad... here is the FBI breakdown of Hate Crime Victims... Blacks are #1 victims of Hate Crimes in this Country

Crimes against whites are never classified as hate crimes. Whites are simply considered to be a victim of crime. Period.

So your list means little.

R60 they have 20% of Hate Crimes as white... so they do get counted.

R61 Only if they're white people with a defining characteristic: gay or Jewish or disabled etc.

Otherwise white people are not counted as being victims of hate crime based merely on race.

So those statistics mean nothing.

It’s ridiculous to claim that white people walking around in a black neighborhood are in danger or suffer anything comparable to what blacks experience when they walk in a predominantly white area. I’m not dismissive of the real crimes committed against anyone anywhere, but it makes no sense to conflate “black neighborhood” with “high-crime neighborhood.” I’m a white (and pretty obviously gay) guy living in a primarily black neighborhood and people are just genial, normal, going about their business.

[R63] Yes, I have lived in several black neighborhoods and the people were so welcoming. I thought how if the tables were turned, white people wouldn't be as warm and kind. Unfortunately white people aren't really that nice. I noticed that as a small child.

R63 Around here in Louisiana you would not be living in a black neighborhood, the black people don't even want to live in a black neighborhood. And yes, right here black neighborhoods are high crime neighborhoods, we have killings EVERY week sometimes multiple murders. Two weeks ago there were three murders in four days and that is pretty normal. We had 59 homicides in 2019 in a city of 200K. I really think you are lying.

I will add one more difference about the black male walk - they will be met with authorities/police who could escalate a casual stop / conversation into a full on assault, arrest, imprisonment, or even death by firearm. There could be prison time, legal fees, and a record.

The supposed 'white walk' through a black neighborhood will never have this. There could be a theft crime, but then they get to walk away with fewer possessions than before.

Not black people in the wrong place. The penalties are much much worse due to 'law' enforcement.

[R65] Is that New Orleans or Baton Rouge?

That black-walking guy was SO disappointed that the police didn't actually harrass him!

[quote]it makes no sense to conflate “black neighborhood” with “high-crime neighborhood.”

Are you really that naive?

[quote]The supposed 'white walk' through a black neighborhood will never have this. There could be a theft crime, but then they get to walk away

So they'll have a gun or knife pointed at them or will be physically assaulted "but then they get to walk away ".

Nice.

R68 - having a cop follow you IS harassment.

R70 - that's the imagined result of being white in a black neighborhood. I'm not saying it would happen or that it is true.

But how often do you hear of white people being killed in black areas? I'd love to see some stats on this, but I doubt there are any or if there are, it would be rather low.

[quote]But how often do you hear of white people being killed in black areas?

They're places Whites avoid. Why would anyone want to go to a Black area?

Just stay in your own hood...simple.

I'm gay and Jewish so I guess that gives me sufficient victim points.

I also have ADHD. That counts as a disability right?

I wouldn't walk through a white trailer park redneck neighborhood either.

These white dudes look totally non threatening.

R65 it's even worse Shreveport.

If that's really the guy I would invite him in for snacks and a movie.

Just accept the fact that people prefer to live amongst their own people. Whats the problem with that?

Just wanted to add my experience. I live in a predominantly white suburb of LA. Lots of young kids in my neighborhood, often selling things like Girl Scout cookies, magazine subscriptions, etc. Two black boys came by one afternoon and went door to door to sell candy bars for their school. They were from the next town over. I purchased a candy bar and went back inside. Literally five minutes later, a cop car is down the street and the two boys are sitting on the sidewalk being questioned by the cops. I know some white person must have called the police on them for no other reason that they don’t “belong here.”

Another time, my husband (a brown man) was coming back from work around midnight (he works in the ER). A cop stops him and says the license plates are missing from the car and threatens to ticket him. Husband is baffled and concerned about the theft. Cop asks to see ID. When he sees the address is just one street away and my husband’s scrubs, his demeanor softens and he lets my husband go. When he gets home, he checks the car, and lo and behold, the license plates were there like always. Again, a case of being stopped while brown/black.

Went to a party this weekend at a community clubhouse. Gated community, predominantly white. Parking lot was full so I parked at the curbside, along with a bunch of other people who were doing the same. White frau comes by and tells only me (the only brown person visible) that it’s against the rules to park curbside on the street and I have to park elsewhere. There is no signage indicating no parking, but I got the distinct feeling she felt like she could boss me around because I was brown.

So the black walk thing? I totally get it.

[quote]A cop stops him and says the license plates are missing from the car and threatens to ticket him. Husband is baffled and concerned about the theft. Cop asks to see ID. When he sees the address is just one street away and my husband’s scrubs, his demeanor softens and he lets my husband go.

The cop says the license plates are missing but lets him go?

Sorry, but I feel much safer amongst my own.

[quote]They were from the next town over. I purchased a candy bar and went back inside. Literally five minutes later, a cop car is down the street and the two boys are sitting on the sidewalk being questioned by the cops. I know some white person must have called the police on them for no other reason that they don’t “belong here.”

You can't just sell things door to door. Especially things to eat. The cops had every right to check to see if the kids were authorized.

[quote]Parking lot was full so I parked at the curbside, along with a bunch of other people who were doing the same. White frau comes by and tells only me (the only brown person visible) that it’s against the rules to park curbside on the street and I have to park elsewhere. There is no signage indicating no parking, but I got the distinct feeling she felt like she could boss me around because I was brown.

And so you just left? Or did you ask why others were allowed to park curbside?

r3 = Laurence Fox

And all these blacks refused to vote for Pete because he was gay.

The problem is the OP's person sees himself as a victim. He is perfectly happy to blame others for his lack of performance.

He needs to hear Ann Romano's "wall speech."

Of course it's so much easier to sit back and play the professional victim.

As Vera says "They won't change because they don't want to change. It's easier to blame everyone else and accept life as unfair to them."

"And all these blacks refused to vote for Pete because he was gay."

I've never realised how frequently (presumably) white people pluralize 'black' - as if they're referring to non-human or inanimate objects. Fascinating.

I wonder if it's deliberate.

And, r88 do you have any evidence to support such an incendiary claim? And it's was certainly mostly white people that voted a homophobic, racist and misogynist as president.

"They won't change because they don't want to change. It's easier to blame everyone else and accept life as unfair to them."

This is a lot white men today; who you fooling?

Also, the black guy is hot!

[quote]Only a depraved people could sell their OWN fellow Africans into slavery.

Fixed it for you, R50.

From the NYTs:

Previous research suggests some reasons there may be a large income gap between black and white men, but not between women, even though women of color face both sexism and racism.

Other studies show that boys, across races, are more sensitive than girls to disadvantages like growing up in poverty or facing discrimination. While black women also face negative effects of racism, black men often experience racial discrimination differently. As early as preschool, they are more likely to be disciplined in school. They are pulled over or detained and searched by police officers more often.

“It’s not just being black but being male that has been hyper-stereotyped in this negative way, in which we’ve made black men scary, intimidating, with a propensity toward violence,” said Noelle Hurd, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia.

She said this racist stereotype particularly hurts black men economically, now that service-sector jobs, requiring interaction with customers, have replaced the manufacturing jobs that previously employed men with less education.

I wish I lived in a neighborhood that was so diligently patrolled.

R91 THANK YOU! I was wondering if anyone was going to point out the R50 that Africans were enslaved and sold to whites by OTHER AFRICANS

[quote]"It’s not just being black but being male that has been hyper-stereotyped in this negative way, in which we’ve made black men scary, intimidating, with a propensity toward violence,” said Noelle Hurd,

Oh Noelle who are you kidding? You suddenly lock your car doors too...

R91, stop addressing me. I don’t want you to answer me. I am smarter than you, better educated than you, and am not into your presentation of facts, without comprehensive history and analysis accompanying it.

Go fuck of. I’m sick of your repeated engagement with me. Do you realize that I do not even associate with people such as yourself, in my day to day life?

I have standards, r91. I fix things for myself, by myself, and if not, pay for the fix.

I don’t need you “fixed that for you”. You’ve fixed ZERO for me, so don’t fool yourself into believing otherwise, for rest assured, I have NOT.

I'm originally from St. Louis. Count me in as another person who believes R63 is completely full of shit.

Try walking your lily-white, faggy self through North County or East StL, and then come back and tell us all about your experience.

R92. Men worldwide and throughout history commit the vast majority of violent crimes. They are 'in general' more predisposed to aggressiveness because of testosterone. Of course they are disciplined more. It takes a a much stronger hand to tame and civilize them to live in polite society.

[quote]Do you realize that I do not even associate with people such as yourself, in my day to day life?

Same. Get over yourself, Mary.

There are idiot Blacks and idiot Whites....just learn to love and live in peace.

Sad that some of you cherry-pick examples of high-crime neighborhoods that happen to be mostly black and then ASSUME that means all black neighborhoods have similarly high crime rates. It just isn’t true. I’m R63; I was telling the truth. The black neighborhood I live in bears no resemblance to the ones you’re describing in Louisiana, Illinois and elsewhere.

Could be me - I moved from the northeast to Georgia. My spouse is black I'm white. He used to complain he felt like a speck of pepper in a sea of salt. Now its the inverse I'm a speck of salt and fine with it.

R102, you are a perfect example of someone, even with a black spouse can still say questionable things regarding race.

Darling, a black experience isn't just having a black dick in you for however many years.

All of my neighbors who have Ring doorbells are black.

Yes, I'm sure you know every neighbor who has a Ring doorbell. That makes total sense and doesn't sound made up AT ALL.

[quote]I was wondering if anyone was going to point out the [R50] that Africans were enslaved and sold to whites by OTHER AFRICANS

Oh, well, then slavery was okay then. You should ask your Daddy Trump to bring it back, since it had nothing to do with white people or racism or anything.

R106 nice strawman argument, clown.

"Men worldwide and throughout history commit the vast majority of violent crimes."

Socio-economic circumstances is a more salient antecedent to help explain the preponderance of violent crime in a given social group.

" They are 'in general' more predisposed to aggressiveness because of testosterone."

Excuse me?! Most men are not violent and don't commit violent crimes. It is not in the body of individuals we'll find any answers.

[quote]They even let us gays live in the neighborhood.

Gee, how nice of the heterosexuals.

*eyeroll*

[quote] I've never realised how frequently (presumably) white people pluralize 'black' - as if they're referring to non-human or inanimate objects. Fascinating.

[quote]I wonder if it's deliberate.

Of course it’s deliberate. When you’re trying to pluralize something that is. Gays, blacks, Asians, lesbians, etc. etc.

[quote] And all these blacks refused to vote for Pete because he was gay.

I don't think that's true. I saw a poll posted somewhere (don't remember where) that showed most African americans didn't vote for Buttigieg because they didn't know much about him as a candidate. Among those who did know of him, he had a very high approval rating. I think some white gays tend to use black people as a scapegoat for the homophobia in this country. Even if there are black people who are against gay rights and/or are religiously conservative, the difference is they generally will not vote for far-right politicians in an attempt to preserve "traditional values" (unlike white conservatives who will). Black Americans know what their priorities are.

R108 has to be trolling, right?

Jesus fuck, where are all these psycho halfwits coming from? I get the feeling they're not DL regulars.

[quote]The supposed 'white walk' through a black neighborhood will never have this. There could be a theft crime, but then they get to walk away with fewer possessions than before.

IF they walk away at all.

Black people have no interest in Pete because he hasn’t tried letting them get to know him. He is cold and prudish toward the black community. On top of that, he has had black people speak out against him, and how he mistreats the black people that work for him.

It has nothing to do with him being gay, it has to do with the gay White mans treatment of black people.

PS the majority of whites aren’t voting for him either. So....

[quote]It has nothing to do with him being gay, it has to do with the gay White mans treatment of black people.

Oh Please.

R115 Oh please yourself. There is zero proof to your claim.

r105 take a walk around my neighborhood, hurnty.

[quote]These white dudes look totally non threatening.

R78 So what you're saying is that it is OK to profile people based on their looks?

R118 If it's something they can control then yes.

You reveal yourself within your own facetious examples, r110.

You're very familiar with and hominem attacks I see, r112.

Tell me then, r120, what the plurals of those words should be.

I have nothing for you, r122. Which is more than you have for yourself.

Kisses. X.

This man had it wrong. Many of the women in this white neighborhood want the black man to come in and give them the best sex of their lives.

And yet white on black violence is virtually non existent, especially when compared to black on white violence

Despite only being 13% of the population

Its the "Black lives matter" thing that gets me as in London 90% of killings are Black on Black.

I did political canvassing as a field organizer for a 2018 race. The area was predominantly white. The wealthier the area the more likely it would be for me to be stopped by the police. I can use this as an example because I knew the demographics by heart (duh, it was my job) and I’d send my white interns and volunteers to neighboring streets. Outside of one instance in a year and a half, my white volunteers and interns were never stopped stop by the police or questioned. I was stopped every other week by the cops answered 9-11 calls from residents.

For those that don’t know, canvassing is when you knock on doors to tell voters about your candidate. Apparently, I looked like a threat. I also had to contend with people that aren’t used to checking their doors giving me shocked look once their realized that a black man was at their doorstep. Then they’d correct themselves and as I went into my spiel. But I noticed that half second flash of shock.

Every day there was some harassment or micro-aggression from voters that didn’t match the experiences my white counterparts had when we would do our debriefs. I remember slipping on ice outside of a voters door after I handed them the campaign literature. They watched from the window as I withered in pain from twisting my ankle, I believe most people aren’t that hateful.

I kept going because I believed in my candidate (who won!), I believed that my ancestors had fought to give me the right to walk in any neighborhood I’d like in America, and I believe in the democratic process of directly asking people for their vote.

Funny enough, both of my parents have white collar jobs, so I grew up in very similar neighborhoods. But no matter what I wore, jeans, khakis, button up shirt, polos, t-shirts, I was still profiled. I made sure to memorize the state and township’s canvassing laws because the cops would stop me.

It’s embarrassing when two cop cars stop you on a busy suburban street. They will usually have a hand on their gun holster and approach in a flanking position. Even though they were just doing their job and kindly let me proceed with my work, it made me so damn angry. So black walks exist. The cops are usually just doing their jobs.

On the brighter side, every single day there would be a voter that would show me kindness and compassion. Maybe they let me into their home on a hot, snowy, or rainy day or just thank me for the work. You take the good with the bad and show people that their first impressions aren’t right. Never stop fighting, think about the Civil Rights Movement and keep on marching down any street you’d like with your head held high.

Interesting story, r127. Very interesting.

Thanks for sharing.

While we’re known for snark here, please know I’m sincere in this post.

I agree. R127. Well said. In the midst of it we sometimes forget that there's always some good with the bad.

[quote] But no matter what I wore, jeans, khakis, button up shirt, polos, t-shirts, I was still profiled.

That's depressing. I tend to judge people on how they dress and how they speak as those are the best indicators of someone who is mentally unfit or deteriorating, but the actual race or ethnicity of the person is irrelevant to me. Perhaps it's because I grew up in a city with lots of diversity. However, I do feel alienated when I come across people who speak a different language but that has much to do with me feeling different than judging them for their speech. I can empathize with what you're going through but I can't say I understand why people act that way since its so divorced from my own perception. It's clearly an indication that many people who are successful in life or business don't deserve to be.

R127 I was mugged 3 times in my life. NYC, 1970s. The only time I have ever experienced violent physical aggression.

All three times the aggressors were young black men. It leaves a mark.

Just as it would for you if you experienced the same physical violence from young white men. (And I would not criticize you for what you feel).

If in my neighborhood, you showed up at my door, I'd be on guard until I could understand who you are and why you're there.

Done that, I'd probably also invite you in. Offer you a cup of coffee and shoot the breeze with you for a while.

Nice story R127, but WTF do you think you "have a right" to trespass on private property to ring doorbells? I don't answer my door to anyone I don't know.

All that effort is wasted anyway. It has zero impact.

R132 state’s laws specifically grant me the right since it’s not considered trespassing if there is easy public access to the door. Now, if I was climbing fences and running bast guards at the front of a subdivision then it would be a different story. But where I live political canvassing is a legal and considered a public good codified into the law. Please have several seats.

Thank you, r128 & r129.

r3 the only time that happens is either the white guys is buying drugs or white people are gentrifying their neighborhood.

White folks don't usually want to be in Black spaces unless there is something in it for them being there.

But, R133, you didn't mention anything about why you engage in an activity that is a complete waste of time.

R135 why don't you go fuck yourself.