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I believe you make a lot of good points, except for one: Walking as a white man through a black neighborhood, the police won't stop you. And even if they did, t
by fyi1183 8y ago
I believe you make a lot of good points, except for one: Walking as a white man through a black neighborhood, the police won't stop you. And even if they did, their attitude would be very different than if it was the other way around.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoI have read numerous stories and heard accounts of white people in black neighborhoods who were stopped because it is assumed they are only there to buy drugs. Why would a white person be in such a neighborhood? Sure, there are valid reasons, but it is generally still out of the ordinary.
- jetrink 8y agoThis is something that I have experienced. I'm white and I worked summers doing construction-related work. I was often questioned by police if they saw me sitting in my personal vehicle before work started in a black neighborhood.
- ergothus 8y agoSo your claim of equality is that a black man in a white neighborhood is assumed to be stealing from good (white) people, while a white man in a black neighborhood is assumed to be visiting drug dealers? This still seems like a problem to me. I agree with your above statement about cops reacting to what isn't "normal", but the problem is that normal and perception of normal are not the same.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoI said no such thing as you claim in your first sentence.
- creep 8y agoA black man in a white neighborhood is presumed up to no good, just as a white man in a black neighborhood is presumed up to no good.