I actually saw told my brother to be careful playing this game. I won’t be downloading it either. I just don’t feel safe playing it. I don’t live in a bad neighborhood when it comes to this, and my brother lives in a better one than I do. But after he told me he got followed by some old white dude trying to catch one…

“I can’t relate to what it’s like to be black, but I’m just going to go ahead and assume everyone black people are saying is nonsense and ignore their concerns.”

And this is why “white people just don’t get it”.

It’s about the fact that crazy paranoid white people would see a black person wandering around their “affluent” neighborhood, holding out their phone like he’s taking pictures. He’s actually hunting pokemon, but Mom Whitebread over here thinks he’s casing houses so she calls the cops.

This is in no way an exaggeration.

Have you not been paying attention to the news? It is crazy that people have this fear, but it’s because our society is crazy and not its black members. We live in a crazy world. His fear is grounded in that fact, which has been reinforced time and time again. In light of that, his fear is completely rational.

You are underestimating the intense level of racism in america directed towards black people.

When I saw this post I nearly fell out from laughter lol. More ironic since not only was I thinking this when I first download the app, but I have experienced it first hand. I live in a predominantly white neighborhood (City as well) and I’m in a interracial marriage of 16 years with 4 kids. I’m never a threat to…

Keep in mind that one of the things that got George Zimmerman off the hook for shooting a seventeen year old was that he claimed he feared for his life. He also said what made him suspicious of the teenager walking around in his father’s neighborhood was that he was walking in the rain unhurriedly and kept looking…

I live in the South and I’m afraid to walk anywhere near someone else’s property lest I get shot. I’m not trying to say I know what it’s like to be black - I’m sure it’s absolutely worse if you’re black, but I do know what it’s like to fear other people and it sucks.

Thanks for the support!

I don’t think the point is “this is a Pokemon Go specific thing” but rather “oh, look, yet another thing for POC to worry about doing in public”.

Youre underestimating how quickly old white people pick up the phone to call the cops

You are seriously underestimating what black people feel afraid of.

This is gonna be one of those comment sections, so I just want to say I appreciate you sharing with your experience and hope things get better.

Agreed. He’s not saying Pokemon Go is bad or wrong, he’s just pointing out that loitering and wandering around with your phone like a creeper is more dangerous for a black person than a white person.

I was gonna write “inb4 all the ignorant and racist bullshit” but there’s already a “fuck off” comment, so I guess I’m too late.

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.