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[–] caldonia 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Growing up in a VERY suburban environment (there were three other black people in my high school of almost 4,000 kids) let me offer a little insight from the "other" side. 1) I remember our neighborhood had newsletter that they put out. One time there was a note to call the police if you see a black male in his 40s. That's it, that was the ONLY description. My dad had the police called on him three times before they would print out a retraction (of sorts). 2) My brother drove a very nice car. When he would head to get is hair cut (in an urban area) the police called my dad 3 or 4 times in 5 years asking if he knew a black male was driving his car on such-and-such street. They saw my brother, ran the plates and saw our address/zipcode. 3) Once in the local shopping center my mother and my then 13 year old brother were detained accused of shoplifting, because there had been a black couple (as it turn out the couple was 25) that had stolen something. My brother AND my mother looked NOTHING LIKE 25. I could go on and on and on and on... So sometimes it's not just ONE thing, but it is one MORE thing on top of all the other things. Taken on its own, not that big of a deal. But compounded with the others, it does get tiresome.

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[–] greycloud ago 

lol this is what real racism looks like, it all stems back to not being very good at describing people because you are not used to seeing their faces that often. you recognize the reflection of your own face best, the closer someone else's face is to your reflection the faster you will recognize them. african americans have different facial structure than caucasians. they have a hard time describing each other's facial figures unless they are socialized into being able to do so.

black people are over-represented by legitimate criminals for whatever reasons you want to blame that on. so when one of them looks suspicious in a high crime area, the people who have not been socialized have a hard time describing them, and the people who are online who have a hard time describing them wouldn't even recognize the description anyway. so they just describe them in generic terms (hair color, height, weight, eye color, build, clothing, identifying marks). and a bunch of black criminals give the black innocents a bad name because the racist whites can't tell em apart.

real racism is not being able to tell them apart. its not evil, we are all born with it, it is the result of not being socialized against it. it doesn't necessarily imply that one has a negative view. most racists think kind of highly of asians. perhaps this is because asians aren't over represented as criminals with white victims?

anyhow this is normal human behavior, and is natural human behavior no matter what lies people tell you to make you feel better about yourself. it all goes back to your reflection though, and how your brain processes the differences between people around you. if you are caucasian you focus more on hair color and eye color than a black person or asian would. a black person focuses more on skin color, and pretty much everyone focuses more on facial features than white people do.

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[–] Rellik88 ago  (edited ago)

Geez the comments are full of cucks.

I thought the racism exposed in this article was appalling, then I saw the comments. We white people are used to going into denial about racism, which is fed to us with our mothers' milk. We don't realize that our pretending hurts people of color. We don't want to take responsibility for our actions. But we know the truth deep inside. We feel guilt and shame, especially if we consider ourselves liberal or progressive. Life is much better for everyone when we white people work on our racism. It is freeing to let go of fear and prejudice. We need to end white supremacy before the next generation is poisoned and more people of color harmed. I recommend the work of Tim Wise.

So Liberals you did it. You made white people feel guilty for nothing. So when can we make black people feel guilty for their CULTURE?

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[–] newoldwave ago 

I thought Oakland was all black.

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[–] whereisthemountain ago 

"Some of them just look at me, and then they'll look away," he said

I think you might be reading into that a bit too much.

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[–] ieoy 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

The whole article is basically a complaint that white users of Nextdoor.com, a site where neighbors can talk about neighborly things, in Oakland are super racist because they had wrote concerns about black people. Let's just go with it for a second: being racist on the internet is bad, ok, sure, but then actual crimes against other races must be a lot worse. So lets look at some statistics: Black/White crime

I don't have a problem with a publication reporting on how bad racial profiling is/how uncomfortable some blacks may feel in white areas, but you know that they will never ever ever write about the opposite: how actually dangerous it is to be white in many black neighborhoods, how black on white crime is many many times higher than white on black crime etc.

TL;DR: Another piece on how white people are so racist against blacks. Ignores the facts that blacks on white crime is incredibly more prevalent than white on black crime.

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[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

Only black people could have a problem with a neighborhood watch program.

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[–] 2764154? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It's called Piedmont, a white patch in a sea of black. A place torn between SJW ideals, and the red pill reality: Oakland is the nightmarish face of REAL diversity. The neighboring areas are a fucking demilitarized zone. They are not being racists, they are being realists.

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[–] 1Sorry_SOB [S] ago 

A place torn between SJW ideals, and the red pill reality

LOL