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Ironic how the deplorables think all blacks are on welfare and need to get jobs.... so a guy has a job... and gets the cops called him for showing up.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/i-was-reported-police-agitated-black-male-simply
Last month, I walked across the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to get to work. It was an ordinary stroll. But to a bystander, the sight of an educated Black professional going about his day was apparently cause for alarm.
That bystander called the police. My workplace was shut down. I was, and remain, humiliated.
Racial profiling at predominantly white institutions is nothing new, and this wasnt the first time that I had to grit my teeth through a degrading interaction with police at the university. But this time, it made the news.
The day had started off normally, with my morning exercise routine at the campus recreation center before work. I was still in a positive mood during my daily stroll from the campus recreation center to my office at the Whitmore Administration Building, where I work as a case manager for the universitys disability services office. Over the years, Ive helped hundreds of UMass Amherst students with physical and intellectual disabilities get the resources they deserve. Its a role I take pride in, and I give it my all every day.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It just goes on and on.
Submariner
(12,509 posts)I went to UMASS Amherst (1970-74) and there was not a hint of this racism.
This is all new bullshit brought on by the treasonous bastard in the WH.
Wyatt513
(22 posts)I can't count the number of times just walking down the road the police would stop me and ask for ID, if I don't cooperate with then they just take me to jail for 24 hours till I see the judge.
progree
(10,918 posts)He was apologetic and said, Yes, ma'am, I'm sorry that appears to be what happened, she recalled.
Hmmm, in this article, is even more blunt:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-woman-calls-police-black-023724878.html
The Polack MSgt
(13,192 posts)That I smile more...
Jesus fucking wept. Perhapse a quick song and dance would help as well.
What fucking arrogance. What a willfully ignorant lack of thought that remark shows.
Goddamn