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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am white and have been stopped for being on my phone or for having a tail light out. I always listen to what the police says, never argue with them, am respectful, and don't reach for anything until I am told to do so. In many of these videos, the people getting in trouble are very clearly wrestling with the police and refusing to get out of the car or do what they are asked. I would never ever do such a thing. Also, why is there no outrage about the crime rate in these cities - mostly against African Americans? [/quote]This is why I'm sick of people like you.  Officer Friendly comes to your car, sees a 'familiar' face.  Officer Friendly comes to my son's car and automatically goes into defensive mode.

I guess people like Don Lemon, Van Jones, Chris Rock, George Lopez, John Henson, Jamie Foxx, and a multitude of other well-known figures are just making this up because they have nothing else to do.[/quote]

+1.  God this makes me so sad.  White fellow human beings, can you really not empathize with us?  Please try.  I don't know what to do anymore.  I'm so sad.  I am just begging you, white fellow human beings, try to understand.  Buy Eyes on the Prize. Really learn about our history.  Try to experience it.  MLK was assassinated not 50 years ago.  You say it was a long time ago, but it wasn't.  My father was alive.  So were yours.  The people that opposed civil rights did not disappear, they were not executed, they were not imprisoned.  They are still here, and in many cases, they raised kids who share their lingering and often overt racism.

Maybe the African-American History Musem can be like the Holocaust museum and you get a random name and see how your life turns out as a black person at different times in our history.  The thought of being black in the past absolutely horrifies me.  [/quote]

White fellow human being here. Some of us do get it, to the extent that someone without those experiences and personal history can. Watching documentaries about Civil Rights, I notice the whites defending the status quo of Jim Crow (and worse). Some of them were teenagers at that time, so roughly my parents' age. Those people are still largely alive. They walk among us. Some of them have changed their minds, evolved, learned - and some of them are still the knuckle draggers they were back then, asking why black people don't solve every problem in their community first before tackling the disparate numbers of killings of unarmed/functionally unarmed ("I have a conceal permit. I am reaching for my ID.").[/quote]

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