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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.