Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
No we didnt, you keep bringing up the divide and you keep dancing around my question. Between you and Raleigh you keep bringing up this "divide" or how dangerous it is and I want to know what EXACTLY you mean by it.
Cops are in general more suspicious of black people than white people. Whether or not the statistics support being that way don't mean a whole lot to a black guy that didn't do anything wrong.
Cops are in general more suspicious of black people than white people. Whether or not the statistics support being that way don't mean a whole lot to a black guy that didn't do anything wrong.
I was sitting in my car on a dead end street listening to music and I had my keys in the ignition. That is why the cops rolled up on me point blank. Anyone who doesn't believe that cops treat black people different innocent or not is delusional and don't really know what its like to be black in America
Then why weren't you just at your house listening music?mind you the street was around the corner from my house
Well, New York is one of the most racist places on earth. Sadly, those New Yorkers have infiltrated the South, and brought their racist views with them, which in turn, gives a black eye to the good people of the South.Its Long Island, a black guy just sitting in his car listening to music no matter the neighborhood is suspecious
Maybe I don't want to deal with my parents telling me to keep my music down? Maybe at 29 years old
Not on a street though. Come on, that looks suspicious as hell. Even I wouldn't do that. At least go to a park. Even a big parking lot like a mall or Wal Mart. You can at least act like you're waiting on someone.
I'm starting to think I'm getting my leg pulled here. Only shut-ins and exiled antisocial bastards like me sit in a car alone listening to the radio.
Damn, 29 and still living at home? I was 24 before I was able to escape the madness of relatives and family members I couldn't stand to be around. I wouldn't have lasted another five years without killing myself. I got the degree and packed up the Vega and moved to a one bedroom apartment in Cross Lanes, which is one of the worst places on earth to live. I didn't care though, because I found recluse in the one bedroom apartment, far enough where they wouldn't spend $3.00 in gas to visit. Life was good until a guy from Fayetteville moved in 3 doors down. He drove me nuts until my lease was up, and I found myself moving again. He did have a decent Atari system though.
Rent is ridiculous. For a decent 1 bedroom that isn't crap and have some of the utlilites included and not live in the hood, you are looking at about $1500 and that is the least. So either live at home rent free, or struggle and be independent. That is why so many New Yorkers are leaving the state
I agree that if you are selective about the places (and time) you hang out you can avoid a lot of issues with the police...whether you're black or white. But if you believe that blacks aren't looked at more suspiciously than whites you are extremely naive. The real questIon is who is at fault for this...a racist white society that stacks the deck against blacks or an element of the black culture that is left unchecked by their own for criminal behavior? The answer isn't black and white (no pun intended). There is fault on both sides.
The problem with this kind of argument here is that people on both sides of argument have developed a petty adversarial relationship on these boards so therefore honest and fair discourse can't happen. Fever has admitted on other threads that he feels blacks need to do a better job of holding themselves more accountable. That isn't a victory for the "we're going to ship them back" posters on here. (Christ...I can't believe that people actually say that stuff.) That's someone making an attempt at fairness.
Will never happen, but I wish people on here would drop all the faux anger and pettiness between yourself and other posters and debate the ideas rather than the people who present them. You guys can resume your ad hominem argument. I'm returning to Utopia.
I agree that if you are selective about the places (and time) you hang out you can avoid a lot of issues with the police...whether you're black or white. But if you believe that blacks aren't looked at more suspiciously than whites you are extremely naive. The real questIon is who is at fault for this...a racist white society that stacks the deck against blacks or an element of the black culture that is left unchecked by their own for criminal behavior? The answer isn't black and white (no pun intended). There is fault on both sides.
The problem with this kind of argument here is that people on both sides of argument have developed a petty adversarial relationship on these boards so therefore honest and fair discourse can't happen. Fever has admitted on other threads that he feels blacks need to do a better job of holding themselves more accountable. That isn't a victory for the "we're going to ship them back" posters on here. (Christ...I can't believe that people actually say that stuff.) That's someone making an attempt at fairness.
Will never happen, but I wish people on here would drop all the faux anger and pettiness between yourself and other posters and debate the ideas rather than the people who present them. You guys can resume your ad hominem argument. I'm returning to Utopia.
29 and still live at home. Damn. Are you kidding me? That is pathetic.