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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to guess that this teenager has seen many white people on the metro, eating and drinking whatever the hell they want. She has never seen them so much as blinked at, but she is singled out for the potato chips and lollipop.

That being said - for real? Just put the food in your back pack and keep moving.  To be frank, most middle class+ black folks tell their children very early on: follow the rules. It doesn't matter WHO you see breaking the rules, because when the police show up, YOU are the first person that gets arrested/detained/spoken to.  This is a perfect example of that, and (I hope) she learned a hard lesson.

The transit officer DID give her a chance to actually put the food away, so she has no sympathy from me there.  However, the transit officer over-reacted about potato chips.[/quote]
You're right- - - you are TOTALLY GUESSING!!  And with racially prejudiced attitudes.  Good luck with raising racially healthy kids in your house.[/quote]

I've asked twice to put away food in the metro.  The first time I was in college and on my way to work waiting on a platform (eating somewhat messy food  but don't remember exactly what).  The second time was when I was 35 (was feeling sick and started eating kids' goldfish). That's twice out of the probably 5-6 times I've tried to eat on metro  over the past decades.   Each time, I was embarrassed, new I had done something wrong and against the rules, throughout the food immediately, and apologized.  I am a white woman.  [/quote]

It's not rocket science.  If you eat on the metro you are breaking the rules.  If an officer tells you to dump your food, you dump it, because, again, you are breaking the rules.  Don't care what race you are, dump the food.  If someone chooses to disobey, out of frustration based on a feeling (justified or not) of racial profiling, religious profiling, gender profiling, or any other reason, there are consequences.  If you feel you've been treated unfairly, obey the officer's request (unless it is to do something illegal), then follow up with the police department.  You don't get to disobey law enforcement simply because, in the moment, you believe that you know what's in the officer's mind.  Not at all hard to understand.  I would be humiliated and disgusted if my child disobeyed the rules,, then disobeyed an officer, and all the while with an entitled, dismissive attitude.

I know, but SHE hasn't seen that. She lives in a completely different world than you and I do. She feels like she is being picked on/singled out unfairly, versus seeing it as she just got caught not following the rules.  As I stated, just follow the rules!  She had a chance to put the stuff away and got combative instead.[/quote][/quote]

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