Btw I wanted to respond to posts in the V2 thread but it was locked so this is to who it might interest:
To white liberals who grew up well to and never lived in poor neighborhoods or never knew any actual poor black/brown people: you have no idea what it’s like to be them. You cannot even assume what they go thru.
I have. Grew up with poor black and Hispanic HS friends. Many of them had juvi records. As a charity worker have spent a lot of time, years, counseling ex convicts, drug addicts, all of whom were minorities with records. You have no idea what they go they go thru
for example: the notion that Ahmaud, a black kid who grew up hood with a record would CASUALLY jog into a white neighborhood for fun or be a regular jogger who who drives his car to a scenic place and jog recreationally is LAUGHABLE!
why? because you don’t know black and brown people. They don’t do that! That’s a very WHITE thing to do. Or if you’re black you gotta be a light skinned black who grew up well to do. When you hang out with black and brown people, they don’t just go sight seeing, jogging anywhere. The first thing they ask is: is it all white? I’m I gonna be safe? They stick to that rule.
I live in LA where we have the entire coastline of gorgeous beaches but when I hung out with Hispanics or blacks they kept going the the same ghetto ass beaches years after years putting up with trash, diapers and all the disgusting stuff when a nice upscale beach is 2 miles away. Those are white beaches they told me.
ive been with men who had records. I have counseled them, spent time with them. People who have records don’t think like normal people, esp white people. They don’t go: today let’s got to this beautiful place and jog. I can’t even take them to a nice restaurant: theyd ask is it a white place? What kind of bouncers? Are they bouncers or off duty cops? Because they don’t wanna be recognized. The fact that they had records rules their entire lives.
that’s why it was ridiculous to think Ahmaud a hood black man with a record would get up one morning and say I’ll go jogging in that nice neighborhood full of red necks. It doesn’t happen in real life. Matter of fact I doubt a hood black kid with a record would even go jogging at all unless he went thru some drastic life changes. Because of the paradigm they’re in: they don’t think it’s a beautiful world I’m taking care of my body I love everyone. They think ‘fuck this fucked up whte mans workd, I’m gonna take care of myself
That’s why I didn’t bother responding to your naive clueless posts. Until you know what I know, stfu