List of things you can’t do while black
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Anonymous
Just read about this. Woman shouted “get!” and pulled a gun. UGH. |
Anonymous
Omg. I can't imagine people like this hick lady exist in the world. *shudder* It is Mississippi, though. |
Anonymous
Met too. So sad. |
Anonymous
| Read a book |
Anonymous
Indeed... ‘I was just reading a book’: Canadian cops called on black man reading C.S. Lewis in his car https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/15/i-was-just-reading-a-book-canadian-cops-called-on-black-man-reading-c-s-lewis-in-his-car/?utm_term=.2f2000e946ad After the blue and red police lights flashed behind his car, Louizandre Dauphin figured he may have added another “prohibited” item to the list of things you can’t do while black: Reading. Dauphin, 33, a former high school English teacher, had decided to relax last week with a few books at Stonehaven Wharf, a parking lot for fishing boats that’s frequented by tourists to the Canadian province of New Brunswick. As he drove home afterward, Dauphin recounted on Instagram, an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pulled him over, saying someone nearby had called authorities “because … a suspicious black man in a white car was parked at the Wharf for a couple hours. My response, Really? I was just reading a book.” |
Anonymous
| Get pulled over without being afraid. See a cop and your heart not drop. |
Anonymous
| Perform work study outside your college dorm. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
Maybe someone could post the video from this. It’s so infuriating. |
Anonymous
Campground lady got arrested, doo-da, doo-da https://www.wrdw.com/content/news/Woman-charged-after-pulling-gun-on-black-couple-at-Miss-campground-510822231.html |
Anonymous
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/05/16/zayd-atkinson-john-smyly-boulder-police-officer-resigns-naropa-university/ |
Anonymous
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Fall asleep in your car.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/12/willie-mccoy-shooting-vallejo-police-55-shots?__twitter_impression=true “The California police officers who killed Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old who had been sleeping in his car, fired 55 bullets at him in 3.5 seconds – which was “reasonable”, according to the city of Vallejo’s hired consultant. Officials disclosed the extraordinary number of rounds in a report released this week, months after six policemen shot the aspiring rapper who had fallen asleep inside his car at a Taco Bell. The 9 February killing, which McCoy’s family has called an “execution by a firing squad”, sparked national outrage and has led to intense scrutiny of the Vallejo police department’s frequent use of deadly force and history of misconduct and abuse cases.” |
Anonymous
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Get a return call from a mental health provider when seeking help. It’s tough for many black people to seek help in the first place, given that stigma is often a big deal—looks like even when we decide to seek help, we may not be able to engage a therapist.
“Kugelmass found that, on average, therapists who were responsible for their own scheduling were much less likely to respond to black people's requests for appointments. 30% of the contacted therapists responded to middle-class white people. 21% of the therapists responded to middle-class black women. 13% responded to middle-class black men.” https://splinternews.com/a-working-class-black-man-has-to-try-16-times-harder-to-1793857177 Link to journal article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022146516647098 |
Anonymous
There was no justification for this. The kid was asleep. The police didn’t identify themselves. It’s just so infuriating. |
Anonymous
| These pertain to all groups of people in varying circumstances. Don’t have a chip on your shoulder. |