If they didn’t want us to be part of their country, they should have picked their own fucking cotton.

I’ve known a couple people who didn’t know they had warrants till they got pulled over randomly and the cops ran their IDs. Minor stuff but the cops had to take ‘em in anyway.

If police officers were smart, and if they were willing and able to respect people’s civil rights, they’d always welcome cameras while doing their jobs. Any cop who tells people to stop recording them is a cop who considers it at least possible (if not probable) that s/he is going to do something of which s/he doesn’t…

Whine-1-1, what’s your emergency?

The cop - the black woman. Her facial expression is the story here. It is the face of “what kind of white nonsense is this?”...

The ghost of Rosa Parks politely asks you to shut the fuck up.

This is awesome

Remember what white people did/do when they see successful black businesses....

I’d like to say it was something innocent like “landlord looking to make sure there’s no signs of termites or mold or whatever” but this is the real world and it’s never something innocent like actually doing the job of a landlord.

That’s one hell of a whitening system.

Wait, that’s three different women? Now even I can’t tell them apart. This is going to make things difficult.

I used to live right up ye old Brooklyn hill off of Lakeshore and do you know how many grills I saw out there almost every (warm) weekend?

As an East Bay resident, if you got a problem with black people, this is absolutely the wrong place to live.

I also live 10 minutes from here. This woman is a fucking idiot.

I always laugh at this because I know several Karens. One is a relative (Black). One is one of my best friends (Asian). And the other, a professional contact, looks EXACTLY like what you think of when you think “Damn Karens.”

I live a 10 minute walk from this location. Technically, portable charcoal grills are not allowed anywhere around the lake (there are stationary charcoal grills at some locations, and other locations that allow you to bring a non-charcoal grill measuring less than 27" across). They are next to Lakeshore Ave on the…

Gentrification is a killer. As more white people pour into Oakland they try and take away spaces black folks have been using for years and years. I’m sure this white woman probably moved to Oakland and lives in one of the high rises on the lake and thinks she and people in her building are the only ones allowed to use…

I’ve read some of the other stories since the Philadelphia Starbucks debacle. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR FELLOW WHITE FOLK: BLACK PEOPLE DOING LEGAL THINGS, LIKE SLEEPING OR COOKING OR EXISTING, IS NOT ILLEGAL. STOP WITH THIS SHIT.

Better than even odds the “elderly white woman” was shoplifting and used the kids to deflect attention. Older people represent a growing demographic of shoplifters to the extent that, in several advanced economies, they outnumber teenagers.