#___ingwhileblack

[Sour Masher]

I don't advocate for violence. The more mature, rational part of my brain understands that a violent response is generally not an appropriate one. But I do sometimes see how confident some of these physically weak people are in saying the most vile things to others and wonder and a tiny part of my brain laments what we lost as we've become more civilized and moved away from wild west justice. Some people just don't think they will get punched these days. It's little yippy dog syndrome. You look around that lady on the bus, and like 90% of the people there could take that woman out if she got into a physical confrontation, but she knows we live in a polite society where that is very unlikely to happen. That is a good thing, but I do wonder if she'd act that way if she had a bit of fear of her getting her butt kicked.

[Bernie Brewer]

Having a high tolerance for racism doesn't make you a more tolerant person.

Thanks, I think. But, nevertheless, you be you!

[revo]

It's yet another double feature of "TrumpWorld!"

Episode 1 -
"Shopping at CVS While Black" -- starring a shaky, white, empowered-by-Trump, middle manager as "Coupon Carl":

CVS Health Corp. apologized to an African-American woman on Monday after a manager of one of its Chicago stores, who was also president of the Illinois Log Cabin Republicans chapter and a delegate for Trump in 2016, wrongly accused her of using a counterfeit coupon and called the police on her.

Two employees who were involved in the Friday night incident "are no longer employed by CVS Health,” the national drugstore chain added in a statement.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/cvs-apologizes-black-customer-employees-involved-911-call/story?id=56623820

Episode 2-
"Just Hangin' with the kid While Black" -- starring a soft-spoken, condescending, empowered soccer mom as "Sidewalk Susie":

The head of a Harvard-linked research center is being ridiculed as “Sidewalk Susie” after a viral, cringe-worthy video caught the woman trying to order a mom and her biracial child to get away from her home and then condescendingly asking the family if they live in “affordable housing.”

The confrontation happened Saturday in Cambridge when Theresa Lund – executive director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative – came out of her apartment to complain about noise allegedly being made by Alyson Laliberte’s toddler on the sidewalk outside the building.

“I’m sitting here because you’re preventing my children from sleeping. Would you like me to do that to your kids?” said Lund, wearing a purple T-shirt, running shorts and her hair tied back.

Laliberte answered: “Who is even watching your kids right now. Are you? Cause you’re not, you’re here with me and my kid.”

That’s when Lund, who is white, accused Laliberte of being poor.

“Are you one of the affordable units? Or are you one of the Harvard units?” Lund said in the video that’s been viewed more than 9,500 times by Monday night.

https://nypost.com/2018/07/16/video-shows-harvard-research-head-condescending-woman-biracial-child/

[B-Fly]

To be fair, Revo, I certainly see no evidence that Episode 2 is remotely attributable to "Trump World" (and as I said in my original post, I think this sort of thing is much bigger than Trump and has been happening to people of color since, well, forever). But Episode 2 looks like an educated, liberal white woman exhibiting class bias, more than racial bias, but either way being pretty obnoxious. (I don't believe Laliberte is black, though her daughter is biracial.) "Sidewalk Susie" has acknowledged that she blew it in how she handled the encounter, as noted in the Post story. And it's also interesting to me that the NY Post would report this as another racial bias encounter when The Root, which reports like five of these a day, didn't even note it.

[Sour Masher]

To be fair, Revo, I certainly see no evidence that Episode 2 is remotely attributable to "Trump World" (and as I said in my original post, I think this sort of thing is much bigger than Trump and has been happening to people of color since, well, forever). But Episode 2 looks like an educated, liberal white woman exhibiting class bias, more than racial bias, but either way being pretty obnoxious. (I don't believe Laliberte is black, though her daughter is biracial.) "Sidewalk Susie" has acknowledged that she blew it in how she handled the encounter, as noted in the Post story. And it's also interesting to me that the NY Post would report this as another racial bias encounter when The Root, which reports like five of these a day, didn't even note it.

Yeah, white liberals are certainly not except from this sort of poor behavior. The irony of her professional title is dumbfounding. I really don't know why people can't start these confrontations with politeness. It often goes a long way with most folks.

[revo]

To be fair, Revo, I certainly see no evidence that Episode 2 is remotely attributable to "Trump World" (and as I said in my original post, I think this sort of thing is much bigger than Trump and has been happening to people of color since, well, forever). But Episode 2 looks like an educated, liberal white woman exhibiting class bias, more than racial bias, but either way being pretty obnoxious. (I don't believe Laliberte is black, though her daughter is biracial.) "Sidewalk Susie" has acknowledged that she blew it in how she handled the encounter, as noted in the Post story. And it's also interesting to me that the NY Post would report this as another racial bias encounter when The Root, which reports like five of these a day, didn't even note it.

Yeah, that's why I didn't add the "empowered-by-Trump" label. Maybe she just had a bad day!

[In the Corn]

Yeah, that's why I didn't add the "empowered-by-Trump" label. Maybe she just had a bad day!

So when is it a "bad day" versus bias?

[Bernie Brewer]

So when is it a "bad day" versus bias?

I know, I know. Pick me.

Ok now I’m done! [cough]bullshit, but I’m really trying![/cough]

[B-Fly]

So when is it a "bad day" versus bias?

I don't think it was just a "bad day". Her comments about "affordable units" were clearly classist and maybe, despite that the other woman was white, had racist undercurrents. But acknowledging that you were in the wrong certainly is better than doubling down. And she didn't call the cops. (Maybe she would have if the other mother was Black.)

[B-Fly]

Trying to Get Into a Nightclub While Black

https://www.theroot.com/apparently-theres-a-whites-only-nightclub-in-charlesto-1827673847

Mostly I'm posting this because Michael Harriot's write up is hilarious.

[heyelander]

Trying to Get Into a Nightclub While Black

https://www.theroot.com/apparently-theres-a-whites-only-nightclub-in-charlesto-1827673847

Mostly I'm posting this because Michael Harriot's write up is hilarious.

Dude... can't we white, heterosexuals have just ONE thing that is ours!?!?! I mean aside from nearly everything else? Can't we just have this too?

[Judge Jude]

I once went with a couple of white colleagues to a high-end nightclub in Cleveland as a guest of Sleepy Floyd (!).
It wasn't EXACTLY No Whites Allowed - but it was close.

actually was a good learning experience about getting the "hairy eyeball" anywhere you turned...

[revo]

Today's episode:

"Driving While Black"

"A state contractor from Ohio followed a black man to his home, posted up in front of his driveway and then called him the N-word repeatedly — all because he thought the man cut him off while driving. “I just want to let you know what a n—er you’re being,” the contractor said, with cell phone video showing the entire confrontation. “You wanna let me know how much of a n—er I am?” asked Charles Lovett, the black man being accosted. “Yeah, I want to let you personally know how much of a n—er you are,” the contractor fires back. Questioned by Lovett as to why he is making this assessment, the man says: “Because you’re a rude n—er … You cut me off in my lane.” He then adds, “You cut me off because you feel entitled — because you get everything for free.”


Epilogue:
A contractor in Ohio who followed a black man home and called him the N-word repeatedly tried to blame it all away as an “awful mistake” – saying the racist rant drove him out of business and ruined his life.

Jeffrey Whitman, who owns Uriah’s Heating and Cooling in Powell, was driving his company van last Tuesday in Columbus when he accused another driver of cutting him off and followed the driver, Charles Lovett, for nearly two miles to his home – where the contractor launched into the racist tirade.

Whitman said he now wanted to make amends for the hateful remarks, but stopped short of apologizing directly to Lovett, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

“It was an awful mistake and obviously I don’t know how to explain it, and it’s ruined my life and it’s ruined my family’s life,” Whitman said on a voicemail to a reporter on Thursday, two days after a video of the encounter was posted to Facebook and went viral.

“I’m out of business, I’m completely out, I’m done, I’ll never work in Columbus again,” the voicemail continued. “This has completely and thoroughly ruined my life.”

[DMT]

B-O-O H-O-O

Happy this guy is paying the consequences. "It's ruined my life". No, that's YOU dipshit.

[In the Corn]

B-O-O H-O-O

Happy this guy is paying the consequences. "It's ruined my life". No, that's YOU dipshit.