That reminds me of the Adam Ruins Everything about discrimination in the suburbs:

Yeah, nobody wants to live in a dangerous, run down, and underserved area.

When I was looking for a home, the first few my realtor showed me were run down, in sketchy looking neighborhoods(and I’m from Baltimore so that’s saying something) I had to make her take me to her office and look up a totally new list of houses. literally “Here are the neighborhoods I want, find the houses” I truly…

And I don’t know how it gets fixed, because there is no doubt in my mind that all of this data collection by facebook, twitter, etc, is complied and given to lenders or is somehow used against poc in this regard. 

I’ve had friends set to move into an apartment suddenly get told there was a mix up, and it wasn’t available when they showed up Black for an in person look-over.

I’ve seen FHA maps of my general vicinity from 1940. My place is in what was a class “C” neighborhood: pretty bad, and the worst part about it was that kids would have to walk across ten sets of railroad tracks to get to the nearest school.

Redlining still exists, but they now have “data points” to explain it away. Even if we were able to leave out race/ethnicity, if you chose to live in a “black” neighborhood or “black neighborhood adjacent”, that alone would check the non-existent box for you. It’s always something.

“Remember when they used to say I looked too mannish.” — Janelle Monae. It goes in the same bucket as adultification, I feel. It all lumps you into the pile of “it’s basically an animal black man, they’re asking for it, they can deal with it.”

When they don’t see them as people, it all looks the same.

“yoga CD dude”

“Meanwhile, a Safeway spokesperson told the news station that they were investigating why Martin was the one reported to police, adding that workers had called police because a man who had stolen before had returned to the store.”

Profiled (which I find is more, ‘you must be up to no good because you people don’t belong here’), or the whole “All of them look alike, this 12 yr old girl must be our 32 yr old male suspect”. Either fucking way, stop making bullshit IDs or calling cops until you are SURE, and have checked the damn tapes.

Yeah, that’s ... not really.

There has to be a strong negative reaction from other whites. I react to racist comments with the same disgust and outrage as if they shit on my carpet. I shame and embarrass them as much as possible.It is unacceptable in my presence. Have I lost friends and family because of that? Sure. Don’t want me to call you…

I’ve worked with them. They have the same spark of humanity everyone else does. They are also people with incredible senses of embarrassment (and therefore defensive “pride”) about their ignorance and sloth. And pretty much everything else. And they seem to use that perversely to build an incredible sense of vanity.

I bet Nia Wilson wishes she could just “ignore” vicious white supremacists.

“You’d think that, by now, the white people who seem committed”

Her first mistake is assuming that anyone wants to talk to those ass-backward racists.

I’m a polite white person so I’m going to go ahead and ignore the headline because I am eagerly awaiting future titles in this series. How to talk to a:

The only way to fight racism is to confront it. That’s it. Ignoring it is fucking idiotic. I’m in a weird position bc I’m mixed. Sometimes white people perceive me as white sometimes they perceive me as Puerto Rican so I sometimes feel like a spy behind enemy lines. I have access to the shit that white people say when…