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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be awesome if we lived in a society where race didn't matter, but we live in a society where Black people routinely have the police called on them for....existing in public.

Barbeque with your friends at a grillin a park?  A white lady will call 911

Stand on the sidelines of your son's soccer game?  A white lady will call 911

Let your 8 year-old daughter run a water/lemonade stand without a permit? A white lady will call 911

Take your child to your own apartment complex pool? A white lady will call 911.

It is in this context that Metro Molly invoked authority to punish a Black woman for [b]a minor infraction that may have not even been an infraction at all[/b]. [/quote]

Huh? for many  years Metro has very clearly said that eating in Metro cars is prohibited, period. No exceptions for employees. Where do you get the "might not have been an infraction" stuff?

And comparing this to the other examples above is a false equivalency and you should know that. Lemonade stands, pools, grilling in the park? Nothing at all like a uniformed employee sitting there in full view of everyone breaking a rule so basic that all riders know it, even if those riders want to break it too. That is not at all similar in any way to the cases you cite above. Don't try to make it another "white lady will call 911" case. And you fail to note: The woman who posted is not a white lady. Did you pay any attention to the specific details of this story, or is it just easier for you to pretend this is the same "white lady" who calls 911 on everyone?

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White (and white presenting) women invoking authority because they assume they will be taken seriously by virtue of their whiteness (or the way that they present as white) is very much the issue here.

The reason this has blown up, and Tynes should have known this, is that Black men and women have their bodies policed by white strangers from dawn to dusk. So this is stacked on all of those other incidents. It is not identical, but it clearly resonates in the same context. [/quote]

So what your are saying is that blacks have their bodies policied from dawn till dusk and then still break the law? Wow[/quote]

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