List of things you can’t do while black

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Listen to loud music

Exercise 2a rights

Visit a pool you pay rent/hoa to use

Park illegally and receive merely a warning or ticket

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Protest

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Play with a toy gun

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Point out racism

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Live in the same apartment complex as Harvard employees.

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Make sense.

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I’m so white I never met a non-white person until I went to a high school in the city. So these acts of racism are a little new to me. But I’m shocked, appalled, embarrassed that most of the examples here occurred just in the last few months. And we know of them thanks in large part to social media and cameras in every phone. I think if I had a black teenage son, I’d want to strap a body cam on him.

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Anonymous wrote:Live in the same apartment complex as Harvard employees.

Wasn’t the kid playing outside? Imagine.

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Anonymous wrote:read this thread without rolling your eyes.

I'm not rolling my eyes at all. I'm just feeling really sad. I'm trying to wrap my head around what it must be like to raise a black child, and especially a black male, in this fukced up country.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so white I never met a non-white person until I went to a high school in the city. So these acts of racism are a little new to me. But I’m shocked, appalled, embarrassed that most of the examples here occurred just in the last few months. And we know of them thanks in large part to social media and cameras in every phone. I think if I had a black teenage son, I’d want to strap a body cam on him.

My boss is black and her son, 14, is very tall and muscular so he looks much older than he is. She said that he's still learning how to live in his adult body, which is not unusual for teenaged boys (maybe for girls, too, but I only have boys) who literally seem to grow measurably overnight. They went to visit family in WVa and stopped at a gas station where her son went in to go to the bathroom and get a snack. She noticed that a white woman at the counter was visibly startled by him as he walked by, but he didn't even realize it. That experience made her fearful for him and she's been trying to help him understand that he has to be measured. It all just makes me sad.

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Anonymous wrote:read this thread without rolling your eyes.

Nothing in this thread is hyperbole. These are all actual things that happened to innocent black people minding their own business. If that makes you roll your eyes, then you’re part of the problem.

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Get angry.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad but true. Apparently you can't vote either if you're in Georgia.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/14/stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-voter-registration-controversy/1640618002/

Can't believe this is happening in this country.

Sure you can.

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Talk on a cell phone

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:read this thread without rolling your eyes.

I'm not rolling my eyes at all. I'm just feeling really sad. I'm trying to wrap my head around what it must be like to raise a black child, and especially a black male, in this fukced up country.

I cannot imagine. The conversations I have to have with my blond daughter are so different than my friends who have sweet little boys who are about to become “scary black teenagers”