List of things you can’t do while black

[Anonymous]

We live in Upper NW (aka upper caucasia) and I tell my teen ds' not to walk home late at night from a neighborhood friend's home. I will pick them up because I worry the cops will be called on them or they will be stopped for being young black males in a majority white, affluent neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Go to the theater to watch the movie Harriet.

The person who suffered this humiliation is a 65 year old Black woman. Yep, the irony is rich.

More than a dozen members of a local African American women’s empowerment group, the 504 Queens, were attending a Nov. 3 showing. According to NOLA.com, they had reserved their seats at the AMC Clearview Palace 12 in Metairie, La., in advance. But after the movie started that Sunday night, they said, the theater’s employees began treating them suspiciously and questioning whether they really had tickets and were in the right seats. Finally, a manager interrupted the film to confront them as everyone else in the audience stared.

“We were watching people being whipped, being shot in the head, their children being sold away from them,” she said. “And then you shut down this movie, this emotional movie, and come to me about a ticket dispute? It felt like the 1800s again in 2019.”

Taking an extraordinary steps to address this issue, AMC said it would create a training video for all employees, as part of their remedy for this behavior.

See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/21/harriet-amc-theatres-metarie-lousiana-apology-racial-discrimination/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get the police to solve your loved one’s murder.

That has more to do with gang related murders and other instances where no witnesses will cooperate with law enforcement. But if you want to see it as an outcome of racism go right ahead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to the theater to watch the movie Harriet.

The person who suffered this humiliation is a 65 year old Black woman. Yep, the irony is rich.

More than a dozen members of a local African American women’s empowerment group, the 504 Queens, were attending a Nov. 3 showing. According to NOLA.com, they had reserved their seats at the AMC Clearview Palace 12 in Metairie, La., in advance. But after the movie started that Sunday night, they said, the theater’s employees began treating them suspiciously and questioning whether they really had tickets and were in the right seats. Finally, a manager interrupted the film to confront them as everyone else in the audience stared.

“We were watching people being whipped, being shot in the head, their children being sold away from them,” she said. “And then you shut down this movie, this emotional movie, and come to me about a ticket dispute? It felt like the 1800s again in 2019.”

Taking an extraordinary steps to address this issue, AMC said it would create a training video for all employees, as part of their remedy for this behavior.

See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/21/harriet-amc-theatres-metarie-lousiana-apology-racial-discrimination/

OMFG

[Anonymous]

Have your child die in an accident:

https://people.com/crime/mom-charged-with-child-abuse-after-son-gets-caught-in-airport-escalator-and-dies/

[Anonymous]

Apparently pay for first class plane tickets and fly first class in your paid seat without being harassed...

https://www.theprimarymarket.com/view/one-man-made-a-facebook-post-to-call-out-the-woman-who-profiled-him-at-the-airport-then-makes-an-apology-post/?src=outbrain&utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=0050e42898f0eb5532b58bc20a8cee1159&utm_campaign=00ff662798b443f2127f46d9676e4e0d12&utm_key=220&utm_content=00a8e31c671c3031f1d76d876b69858bd8&utm_term=TPM_M_US_one-man-made-a-facebook-post-to-call-out-the-woman-who-profiled-him-at-the-a_or_i_229345_p2&dicbo=v1-381ea0b94109c2e056b7c8afe81306bc-00c139a399fec6045e396e0b127b1a4c92-muzdmmdegy4tilldga2dgljug4ydcllcgy3gillgguztqmtbgmzdgmtemu&page=22

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get the police to solve your loved one’s murder.

That has more to do with gang related murders and other instances where no witnesses will cooperate with law enforcement. But if you want to see it as an outcome of racism go right ahead.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. I bet witness / community cooperation is a big factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have your child die in an accident:

https://people.com/crime/mom-charged-with-child-abuse-after-son-gets-caught-in-airport-escalator-and-dies/

This is incredibly sad.

[Anonymous]

Working and driving a truck in a suburban neighborhood while black

https://youtu.be/kUgzh6wAERw

[Anonymous]

Be a UPS driver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be a UPS driver.

https://youtu.be/az_rPm_XQcg

Crazy

[Anonymous]

go to the zoo in DC on a saturday night...

Two teenagers were shot near the Smithsonian National Zoo in Northwest D.C. Saturday night as hundreds of people were in the area for ZooLights, authorities say.

The National Zoo closed early after several incidents involving groups of teens in the park, the zoo said. About 7:30 p.m., a group of teens shot off fireworks at the zoo, which some visitors mistook for gunshots, police said.

[Anonymous]

I’m gonna take a guess that the 20 yr old woman dozing back to sleep early morning and was ambushed by a police raid looking for a previous house occupant —who was in JAIL at the time— and shot her in her home several times was black. Pls correct me if I’m wrong. Police say there was a “miscommunication” and they’re running that down now because they shouldn’t have carried out the raid when the guy was already in jail (ya think?) No apology to the young woman with multiple bullet holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m gonna take a guess that the 20 yr old woman dozing back to sleep early morning and was ambushed by a police raid looking for a previous house occupant —who was in JAIL at the time— and shot her in her home several times was black. Pls correct me if I’m wrong. Police say there was a “miscommunication” and they’re running that down now because they shouldn’t have carried out the raid when the guy was already in jail (ya think?) No apology to the young woman with multiple bullet holes.

Not surprisingly, you are 100% WRONG.

Please stop with your bigoted views towards police officers. I don't post nasty stuff when a minority commits a crime in an attempt to disparage every minority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m gonna take a guess that the 20 yr old woman dozing back to sleep early morning and was ambushed by a police raid looking for a previous house occupant —who was in JAIL at the time— and shot her in her home several times was black. Pls correct me if I’m wrong. Police say there was a “miscommunication” and they’re running that down now because they shouldn’t have carried out the raid when the guy was already in jail (ya think?) No apology to the young woman with multiple bullet holes.

— as reported by the Washington Post.