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I once had a job where I was required to go door to door. We would go in teams to certain neighborhoods. I was told "this is a good neighborhood, you should have success here". What happened on occasion was this: The police being called. At the place I worked at during the time, I was the token Black guy there. I notice the police were called on me far more than anyone else, where as the rest of my colleagues seldom had to deal with that. Let's just say I know a thing or two about the police being called on me vs watching other people receive more favorable treatment. It disgusted me, but it was something I never really talked about. I understood there would be many who would have no empathy for me. One reason I do feel like lashing out is because I'm told "there's no racism" or "you're exaggerating" and my experiences mirror the very opposite. Being lied to or being dismissed hurts alot.
White people have been calling police on black people over nothing for a long time
In the most crime-ridden areas of our big cities, where the vast majority of shootings, assaults etc. occur, most police activity is responding to calls from local residents of those areas. And those residents are nearly always black... calling the police on other blacks.
Are the police supposed to refuse their calls?
Most black people are decent, law-abiding citizens, who want the same things most other people do: Good jobs, a safe neighborhood in which to raise their kids, peace and prosperity.
But as Troyfan pointed out, some ethnicities (he used east Asians) have so few lawbreakers (though never zero) among them, that they have earned a reputation as being overall decent and law-abiding. But with most police activity centered around black criminals (after being called by black residents who don't like what the black criminals keep doing), it's inevitable that "blacks will earn a reputation of being criminals, thugs, lawbreakers etc.". It is deserved... despite the fact that most black people never engage in such activities, and protest when others do.
The black people the OP mentioned, did nothing to deserve getting the cops called on them. But some of their fellow blacks did plenty to deserve it... and the reaction of others is inevitable, however mistaken about those particular surveyors, engineers etc.
As long as a minority of blacks keeps committing a disproportionate majority of crimes, an occasional non-black will keep calling the cops when they show up in their neighborhoods. The fact that the non-blacks are mistaken to do so in those particular cases, doesn't change the fact that a minority of blacks (the genuine criminals) are spoiling it for the decent, hardworking, law-abiding blacks.
And it's not white people's fault that an unusually large proportion of genuine criminals among blacks are spoiling it for the rest.
I once had a job where I was required to go door to door. We would go in teams to certain neighborhoods. I was told "this is a good neighborhood, you should have success here". What happened on occasion was this: The police being called. At the place I worked at during the time, I was the token Black guy there. I notice the police were called on me far more than anyone else, where as the rest of my colleagues seldom had to deal with that. Let's just say I know a thing or two about the police being called on me vs watching other people receive more favorable treatment. It disgusted me, but it was something I never really talked about. I understood there would be many who would have no empathy for me. One reason I do feel like lashing out is because I'm told "there's no racism" or "you're exaggerating" and my experiences mirror the very opposite. Being lied to or being dismissed hurts alot.
I live in a good neighborhood and can tell you people call the police on white solicitors all the time.
With all due respect, when you're given the talk that you refer to, you start seeing everything....all of your experiences...and the world as a whole, with an us vs them mentality. Because that's what the talk entails, doesn't it?
And sometimes...I'd say probably most times...it has nothing to do with race at all, it has to do with ornery people. But you'll never believe that because based on what you learned growing up, it's so inculcated in you that it's probably impossible to remove those beliefs. Add some bad experiences, which I have no doubt that you've had, and those beliefs become cement.
I've had a few bad experiences with black folks, including one where I was beaten up pretty badly and another in which I thought I was going to die. I was told I was going to die. He said he was going to kill me. I've also had numerous bad experiences with white folks, but none as bad as the ones I've had with black folks. The difference is, I was taught different things than you. I don't have an us vs them mentality.
If I was raised to think black people were thugs, my experiences with black folks would have made my beliefs concrete. But I wasn't raised that way, so I came out of those experiences knowing there are racists in all groups and they don't represent the majority.
How can black children getting that kind of talk ever trust white people? How can they not be racist? I would think it's impossible.
Lots of white people just don't get it. They've been surrounded by lily white their entire lives and don't know how to react in the presence of black people. Like this woman:
Lots of white people just don't get it. They've been surrounded by lily white their entire lives and don't know how to react in the presence of black people. Like this woman:
Do you know how many property crimes are committed in Chicago every year?
About 80,000
Just try to wrap your head around that number when you think about people calling the police for no reason.
This is a really weird and strange comment What do property crimes in Chicago have to do with this thread topic???? Why not property crimes in DC, or Baltimore, or Atlanta?? All cities with a significantly larger percentage of blacks than Chicago? Maybe I'm just missing the context
Lots of white people just don't get it. They've been surrounded by lily white their entire lives and don't know how to react in the presence of black people. Like this woman:
Do you want all the news reports where White people were assaulted/beaten by Blacks for being in the wrong "hood"? Should we then infer from those instances that "most" Black people don't get it or are racist?
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What do property crimes in Chicago have to do with this thread topic???? Why not property crimes in DC, or Baltimore, or Atlanta?? All cities with a significantly larger percentage of blacks than Chicago? Maybe I'm just missing the context 
