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No freaking kidding!
They see racism everywhere because they want to.
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I love the United States and know that I have been given opportunities here that I would not have gotten anywhere else on Earth, but.... When we lived in California my husband and son's got pulled over all the time. Two of the times my husband, a military JAG officer, was pulled over because "he was driving suspiciously" he was handcuffed while they called in his license. Handcuffed. A middle aged, well dressed, cooperative, non-violent, polite man who had broken no laws. Not even a mike over the speed limit. I can't begin to tell you how many times he's been pulled over and grilled about the vehicle he was driving. It exists, you just don't think it does because you haven't been subjected to it.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're white. If you aren't a person of color in this country, you have no idea what day-to-day life is like for them.
And I don't care, anymore than you care what it's like to be female of Russian/German and Swiss ancestry.
And you won't hear me whining and bellyaching about it.
If you have it so bad here, feel free to go elsewhere. I won't mind.
Two decades ago, he and Frances attended a fundraising gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. They were thrilled to get tickets through work: Whitney Houston was scheduled to perform. First lady Hillary Clinton was in attendance.
An underdressed white man who looked to be in his 50s sat down at their table. He asked what event he was attending. He did not have a ticket, he explained, but lived in the neighborhood and often popped in when something interesting appeared to be going on.
“And that,” Frances explains, sitting on the couch next to her husband, ” is white privilege.”
This is an example of a small thing with big implications. As illustrated, no one batted an eye that this underdressed white guy belonged at the gala. Even though his outfit was wrong.
You can have the right outfit on as a black person and still be mistaken for the help.
I used to work in consulting. I went to some meetings where clients didn't think I was the lead. They may have thought I was the note taker. Or the intern. But surely not the expert. Meanwhile my white male boss was in ratty jeans to many client meetings without worry. The same thing happens at conferences. People assume I am staffing the event, not attending it.
I need to pay far more attention to my clothing choices than my peers.
It's a big world. If this country makes them this paranoid maybe they should try somewhere else. Or therapy.
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