List of things you can’t do while black

[Anonymous]

Live a normal life or live long enough to die of natural causes.

My BIL (black) has had the police called on him multiple times when he was out with his kids (both adopted, one white & one Asian). Once, when I was out with him and my SIL (we are both white), a white woman on the street stopped us and asked if she could speak with us alone. We thought maybe she was in trouble or needed a feminine product, but no, she was concerned that we were in danger and being held against our will by my black BIL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be black teenaged boys living on the Upper East Side (true story).

What’s the story.

What happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move into a NYC apartment. A former Obama staffer post presidency moved there and had the cops call him bc a neighbor didn't believe that he wasn't a robber. I don't understand -- what robber hauls in furniture?!

OMG this happened to a family friend in Alabama. Granted it's Alabama but someone called the cops on him while they were moving to a new place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Buy skittles.

Breaks my heart still.

Mine too.

Here's mine - disappear from school for weeks/months without anyone looking too hard for you (Relisha Rudd).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Find food in after a hurricane:

Wow

This still chaps my a$$ after more than a decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be black teenaged boys living on the Upper East Side (true story).

What’s the story.

What happened?

Without giving too many details, husband and his bro were briefly detained outside their UES home. Cops thought they fit the description of some suspects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Find food in after a hurricane:

Wow

This still chaps my a$$ after more than a decade.

Sickening.

[Anonymous]

Hold a cell phone in your back yard.

[Anonymous]

Buy seed as a farmer that is not FAKE.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/07/18/black-farmers-were-sold-defective-seeds-suit-claims/795147002/

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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.

I’m black and have a young elementary-aged daughter. I felt a little relieved when I learned we were having a girl, although I feel guilty saying it—black girls certainly have their challenges, but it doesn’t seem as dangerous out there for girls as it does for black sons.

However, even that’s not much relief, since I have a black husband and brothers.

Your black daughter is more likely to be ignored when she tells a hospital worker she's in medical distress when giving birth or shortly after, and more likely to die in or after childbirth than a white woman. The stress of being black is literally killing black women. The stress of just existing.

I follow Humans of NY on Instagram and the guy is in Ghana right now, or he was and he posted a blurb about a guy, his wife, and their son. The guy and his wife are doctors, and studied in America, but ultimately decided to raise their son back in Ghana, because there his son wouldn't have to be so aware of his blackness, he would just look like everyone around him. That really struck me - they're much more poor there, and life is much harder there. But race was their driving factor in choosing to stay. That's how important this is for them.

[Anonymous]

Be born in wedlock (well, it does happen 28% of the time):
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jul/29/don-lemon/cnns-don-lemon-says-more-72-percent-african-americ/

[Anonymous]

Drive for Lyft without turning on the radio,
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/trump-supporter-calls-911-black-lyft-driver-not-turning-radio-225018422.html

[Anonymous]

Make small mistakes while driving.

Drive at night.

Drive really ever anywhere especially around white people.

[Anonymous]

I can’t imagine what the daily conversations must sound like when you have a teen boy and how they differ from what we tell our white boys of some privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be born in wedlock (well, it does happen 28% of the time):
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jul/29/don-lemon/cnns-don-lemon-says-more-72-percent-african-americ/

Really PP? As if the child has control. This is passive-aggressive shaming. Your example is not at all like the normal, daily things that we are talking about.