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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wasn’t driving cross country with my kids and, on a long flat stretch in Kansas, I got pulled over doing 90 in a 65 zone. When the cop came to the window, I rummaged around in the pile of coats and garbage on the passenger seat for my wallet and never though once that he could have pulled a gun on me or hauled me out of the car. I got a ticket for going 75 in a 65 and a kind admonishment to pay attention.[/quote]

Meant to say “was” driving cross country , obviously. Forgot to mention that I was 6 weeks out from a boob job too, so I had some of that big boob privilege going in addition to the white privilege I was born with.[/quote]

This is a serious reach. Now you’re just looking for ways to flagellate yourself. Big boob privilege? Please.[/quote]

I disagree. As a black man, I can say that the chances of me being able to aimlessly rummage around a pile of stuff in my car for my wallet [b]without[/b] a cop pulling out his weapon would be low.[/quote]

Ok but how many white women carry guns and shoot cops, and how many black men do? Prejudice comes from generalizations derived from real statistical differences. I don’t think the prejudice will change until the underlying statistical differences begin to change, sadly. [/quote]

Agree. This is an uncomfortable fact. [/quote]

Also agree.  Black crime is the root of the problem with the black community is viewed and treated by police and a lot of the prejudices black people feel
from others of different races. [/quote]

So it’s okay to judge all Blacks as criminals because of crime by some Blacks in poor communities, but it’s not okay to judge all whites as racists despite 400 years of slavery and systemic oppression coupled with countless racist incidents and racist commentary by some whites nationwide.

That’s jive f&cked up don’t you think?[/quote]

Exactly[/quote]

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