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> Rich african americans get treated differently from rich white people. I am neither a rich white male nor a rich black African American. Can you please ela

> Rich african americans get treated differently from rich white people. I am neither a rich white male nor a rich black African American. Can you please elaborate on how they are treated differently?

grasshopperpurp 9y ago
>Racial slur sprayed on LeBron's house: 'It's tough being black in America' https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/sport/lebron-james-racist-graffiti-incident/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/sport/lebron-james-racist-gra...
- supreme_sublime 9y ago
  When I see these things I'm always skeptical. I doubt LeBron did that himself, but there are TONS of hoax "hate crimes". Especially the ones that seem to be picked up by the news seem to end up being hoaxes. We saw it recently in Canada with the girl who supposedly had her hijab cut, but it ended up being a lie. Who knows why she lied, perhaps for attention, maybe her mother put her up to it.
Trill-I-Am 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_contr...
acdha 9y ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates had a tragic example of a college friend who was casually killed by a police officer: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/29/461337958/ta-nehisi-coates-on-police-brutality-the-confederate-flag-and-forgiveness https://www.npr.org/2015/12/29/461337958/ta-nehisi-coates-on... https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/6967/ https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/6967/ The gist is that being a college educated, affluent son of a doctor wasn’t enough to avoid being seen as a dangerous criminal. That simply doesn’t happen to rich white men at anything like the same rates – the average mass shooter is arrested with more care than that! Sometimes this is national news (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_contr...) but other times it’s just constant low-level stuff. As a white guy, I’ve never had a cab driver avoid picking me up; that’s very much not true for many black men even if they’re much better dressed.

grasshopperpurp 9y ago

>Racial slur sprayed on LeBron's house: 'It's tough being black in America' https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/sport/lebron-james-racist-graffiti-incident/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/sport/lebron-james-racist-gra...

supreme_sublime 9y ago
When I see these things I'm always skeptical. I doubt LeBron did that himself, but there are TONS of hoax "hate crimes". Especially the ones that seem to be picked up by the news seem to end up being hoaxes. We saw it recently in Canada with the girl who supposedly had her hijab cut, but it ended up being a lie. Who knows why she lied, perhaps for attention, maybe her mother put her up to it.

Trill-I-Am 9y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_contr...

acdha 9y ago

Ta-Nehisi Coates had a tragic example of a college friend who was casually killed by a police officer: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/29/461337958/ta-nehisi-coates-on-police-brutality-the-confederate-flag-and-forgiveness https://www.npr.org/2015/12/29/461337958/ta-nehisi-coates-on... https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/6967/ https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/6967/ The gist is that being a college educated, affluent son of a doctor wasn’t enough to avoid being seen as a dangerous criminal. That simply doesn’t happen to rich white men at anything like the same rates – the average mass shooter is arrested with more care than that! Sometimes this is national news (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_contr...) but other times it’s just constant low-level stuff. As a white guy, I’ve never had a cab driver avoid picking me up; that’s very much not true for many black men even if they’re much better dressed.