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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

+10000. Until blacks start to change as a community nothing will change, doesn't matter how much people scream in the streets. Unfortunately that means the good black people get stuck being stereotyped with the bad black people but that's who humans work. You know why Indians or Chinese or whoever don't have these issues? Bc when cops or even regular people walking around at night see them -- in their mind they're thinking hmm x% chance this guy is a dr or IT coming home from work, not x% chance this guy has a gun or a warrant out for his arrest or his high so I better be careful. Unfortunate but that's how society works in America if you're not white (which I'm not) -- the behaviors of your community set a perception for your entire community, whether you are engaging in said behavior or not. Not saying it SHOULD be this way, but that's how it IS and no amount of protesting will change that. Maybe consider some focus on education and uplifting your communities and less focus on guns and drugs.[/quote]

I completely agree with this. I want to see us come together to face this uncomfortable reality in our community. Other black people feel this way, and I've had many conversations with my friends about this. But we dare not voice our opinion to a lot of other black people. Instant Uncle Toms, insert whatever other name. [/quote]

Yep AA here and my family and I say this. Granted we say it very quietly among just my, my sister's, and my 1 cousin's nuclear families. All of us are engineers, drs. and accountants -- several ivy degrees, the rest top 10. We've really grinded our way to the "top" -- not that we are top -- we are MC/UMC. Yet you don't say this in front of other black families even our extended families bc omg you're Uncle Tom. Except my extended family CHOSE not to pursue a higher education, they CHOSE to go job to job without making any kind of career, CHOSE to have multiple kids with multiple mothers and not marry any of them and thus paying multiple child support payments on small non white collar salaries. [/quote]
WTF are you talking about?
What does any of that have to do with privilege?
The brother two houses down from me is a higher-up at some insurance conglomerate making six figures and pushing an S-Class Coupe.
Has he been killed?  No...not yet at least.
But does he CHOSE to be pulled over and harassed all those times when he gets behind the wheel of that car?  
He’s got the money and the class and the amenities and the education but that doesn’t give him immunity.
No.  He’s Black.  That’s the gist of it.  And that’s not a CHOICE he made that’s not a “fault” he should bear responsibility for.[/quote]

Michael Vick was a millionaire and looked like a model during his trial with his perfect haircut and designer suits. But he is an animal abuser that  killed <> 40 dogs in unbelievably sadistic way and his layer's defense line was that for where he is from fighting and killing  innocent dogs was a norm.  
Police officers don't go by fancy cars.  Sorry.
I feel for a good people that have to suffer  the consequences of some behaving criminally. But that's the way it is and always will be. Fancy car doesn't correlate with the behavior of the person driving it - any race or color, by the way. It just doesn't work this way. [/quote]

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