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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here-I suspect that my ticket was not dismissed because I am white.  Black people there with the same or greated traffic violations had their tickets dismissed.  By the way-I lived with racism for much of my childhood.  I lived in a majority black NYC area (think Bed Stuy-like where those 2 cops were killed), went to a school where I was the ONLY white kid in the class (plus 2 Hispanics with light skin).  I was bullied, called names and beat up onanalmost daily basis.  I went to college and grad school and chose a career helping underprivileged families and children in those very same neighborhoods.  I have worked in agencies that have been majority Black-and yes-I have faced additional dicrimination due to my skin color.  Hostile looks, nasty remarks, blatant disrespectful talk about White people in front of my face.  Do NOT try to tell me it does not exist because I am one white person who lived it.  It may be very easy for most of you who likely grew up in insulated, suburban white neighborhoods with and among the priviledged.  Its easy to sit in a Bethesda and Chevy Chase MD/DC McMansions and spew all your liberal bullshit-why don't you try something-move to PG County (Lanham or Capitol Heights seem nice) or SE and send your kids to a local school (c'mon y'all can afford it).  Try that and live it-then come back and inform us all what you have learned.  (Oh and please forgive any spelling and/or grammatical errors as the foundation of my education pretty much sucked cause it was no W school-though I did manage to graduate from a top teir college!)[/quote]I live in a SE low-income neighborhood and my neighbors have been very nice to me.  In fact I was surprised at how friendly people are in my neighborhood.  They're probably friendlier to black people but I can't complain because I got a pretty warm welcome when I moved in 12 years ago.

I believe that you did suffer from some prejudice due to your race but the fact is that I don't live in BCC and my kid went to majority black public schools for nine years and our experience has been nothing like yours.

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