I’ve done the same thing, but for me it was back in 2000. Luckily, I had a cell phone and was able to call police to help. But, today, I doubt I’d call police if the person was Black. It was just a couple of years ago that plain clothed cop in an unmarked car killed a brotha trying to fix his car.

Right? This is the intersection of appropriation, (in the same way that I got caught “appropriating” a pack of Now n’ Laters from the store when I was 8,) and pure, distilled Beckery.

When I was younger and cruising around the lake one night in the rain, I saw a stalled car. As I passed it the man was waving me down. I slowed down and backed up to help but then I got scared that he might not really be broken down and that he was waiting there to attack a young girl. So I put my car back in drive…

Damon, dear, they KNEW exactly what they were doing. They KNEW that they wouldn’t be challenged. THEY FUCKING KNEW IT. White folks being doing this for centuries. And why, dear, are you not stating the fact that they stole this from Huny? This is theft in its basic form. Same ol’ shit different toilet. I will give YOU…

Ugh, had to google who she was and yup, just what I expected from wypipo. She totally stole cuzzo’s idea, ran with it, and placed her name on top with a smiley face beside it, smh.

I’d love to. And I wish I could say this was my aha moment. Mine was actually around 12 years ago when I was the lady with recent C-section standing in the pharmacy and crying. I only recognized her pain because I’ve been there and it makes me feel guilty how often it has taken something personal for me to understand…

You did the right thing man. I had a woman come at me once with fist full of keys because she dropped a bag on the way up the stairs to her apartment and I absentmindedly stepped on the stairs behind her to hand it back.

I had an interesting thought yesterday and this article reminded me of it.

In a world where Henry Louis Gates Jr, an adorable elfin black man wearing khakis & aided by a cane, can be arrested for entering his own house in a cushy neighborhood, yeah you did the right thing by minding your business. They prob got AAA. 

Yeah, sure, I watch too much TV...the nightly news. We have *recent* examples of black people getting hemmed up for knocking on white people’s doors and following directions after getting pulled over.

Even if outlets have POC journalists working for them, those journalists you’re naming have other jobs, projects, etc that they’d need to be pulled off of in order to cover this instead

The Garners’ wish may prevent Erica’s activism from being covered by mainstream outlets

I think it’s amazing that even in death, this family is supposed to drop everything because your feeling, the entitlement, I cant.

The point of the activism was never to make white people comfortable. It was always about the murder of her father and other Black people at the hands of police, and how victims’ names and families are dragged through the mud. How white supremacy is dangerous and unsafe at the best of times; it is not something that…

White people: far more upset that a grieving black family won’t talk to them than that a family member was murdered by a police officer and dragged through the mud.

Whoever suggested his trans material is intended for trans amusement?

Maybe you could call a family member or a counselor who would listen to you...?

Of course, lol, thats it.

Yes, lol, you sound like a very careful “word” person. Im sure you have the best words.

You should buy a dictionary.