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From: (Anonymous) |
Date: August 5th, 2007 - 01:11 pm |
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![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/12176172/598744) | From: chrismaverick |
Date: August 5th, 2007 - 04:22 pm |
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Re: "Sir! Put the cookie down on the ground"
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maybe they thought it was a crack cookie. *shrug* Also, I was wearing a cleveand cavs jersey. Clearly I was a gang member.
From: (Anonymous) |
Date: August 5th, 2007 - 07:09 pm |
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![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/12176172/598744) | From: chrismaverick |
Date: August 6th, 2007 - 12:34 am |
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Re: "Sir! Put the cookie down on the ground"
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well, it was frusterating, but sadly, I've had it happen before.
Being a black man coming out of an IWC show, they probably figured you were a Canadien. You cant blame them...
hahaha... that's way inside there.
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That is...so not funny. And the thing is, I keep being surprised when things like this happen to friends of mine, as if I actually expect the world to be just and reasonable despite knowing perfectly well that it is not.
I'm actually amazed that so many people were surprised by it. It's just one of those things that happens when you're a black guy. No, that doesn't make it ok. But I guess I just don't find it surprising. I'm more surprised that it doesn't happen more often.
I guess that's kind of the thing.
If you are white, you can forget this kind of thing happens, because after all, it only gets called to your attention every so often. It never happens to _you_, only maybe to people you know, now and then.
Whereas if you are, say, Mr Black America, you are probably always aware that this kind of thing might happen to you at any time.
wow. I totally should have changed my name to "Mr. Black America"
then you could give those cops what for. "don't you know who I am? I am MR BLACK AMERICA."
see, again... this is one of those things that my people know not to do.
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ok for serious clearly I am whiter than white.
not your fault. you were born that way. :-)
well, I was born ignorant, too, but that doesn't mean I have to stay that way.
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/67200128/857464) | From: dgr |
Date: August 7th, 2007 - 09:44 am |
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If he calls himself MR BLACK AMERICA, he is so getting Rodney Kinged next time.
pretty much.
From: zare_k |
Date: August 6th, 2007 - 03:18 am |
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well, by the time they got there, I had eaten the weapon, so I don't know if they could even do that.
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/43596440/621119) | From: jameel |
Date: August 6th, 2007 - 12:50 pm |
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As I mentioned over IM, I had the same thing happen to me during college, only I was sitting on my mother's front step.
"What are you doing here?" "I live here."
Since I didn't have a driver's license or state ID, I pulled the keys out of my pocket, turned around, and unlocked the door.
they should have shot your high yellow ass for brandishing a key at them. You could put an eye out with that thing.
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/2086527/582258) | From: nowishere |
Date: August 8th, 2007 - 12:03 am |
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yet another priveleged, ignorant whitie says..
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unbelievable.
I too am impressed at the way you handled the situation and kept your sense of humor (without laughing *at them*)
which Township was this?
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/1834665/582258) | From: nowishere |
Date: August 8th, 2007 - 12:04 am |
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Re: yet another priveleged, ignorant whitie says..
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Also: great pic
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/27800153/598744) | From: chrismaverick |
Date: August 8th, 2007 - 01:26 pm |
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Re: yet another priveleged, ignorant whitie says..
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honestly, it really wasn't all that scary or anything. They had absolutely nothing on me. So the only thing that could have made it bad was being an asshole to them.
And thank you.
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/71241181/486001) | From: mg4h |
Date: August 14th, 2007 - 03:23 am |
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So, yeah - where was this?
And I couldn't help but laugh at the way you've written the story, but together with the pic I was dying inside. It shouldn't be a crime to be black!
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