This has me confused too. It almost sounded like a friendly gesture, “Hey, your usual spot’s open if you want to move”, but somehow responding “No thanks, all my stuff is set up, you know” got the police called. Like was this tense from the get out or did the professor just pop off because he declined? Weird.

Because they joined the force to exert power over black and brown bodies. Any ol’ excuse will do.

So, assuming there isn’t assigned seating:

In.A.World...where one’s whiteness imbues authority over all Blacks automatically. In.A.World...where having the smallest modicum of institutional power affords whites even more authority and a Black dares not to LEAP to answer any question, dares to ask a question or simply refuses to acquiesce...…

They’ve learned to use the police to do their racism for them and the police will gladly arrive, attack, then make up some charges. No questions asked.

If the caller was black, they would arrive on scene and scrutinize everything the caller said and treat the caller as the aggressor.

What I truly do not understand about incidents like this is why they (cops) don’t walk in, figure out the caller is on some bullshit and then give them a citation for the aforementioned bullshit. The wslasting of their time is one thing but the deterrence of future incidents should be another. I’m not even going to…

Borna issued a written apology to his students and the school...

He’s gonna take a very lucrative job with either a consulting company (where he’ll peddle for moneyed interests), or he’ll join a conservative media company and make a million dollars a year being trotted out to talk law and order and how to enforce cheery compliance with the police, and he’ll give paid talks and…

Wait, people were saying a guy hand-picked because he believes in unfettered executive power and a surveillance/police state had integrity? 

Gut him like a fish.

Wanna-be mobsters. Threaten citizens with brutality, threaten immigrants with deportation, threaten countries by withholding aide threaten women’s choice with jail time, threaten children with thoughts and prayers. Veiled threats are a sign of weak leadership. Pointing violence at your own people is cowardice.

I knew that this guy was more than bad news. Even when the pundits on tv where saying Barr has integrity and other unrelated bullshit, I knew. Now here we are. I hope everybody in the administration goes to prison. Starting with the repubs around the traitor-in-cheif. They are all in on it to keep power. This shit…

Barr never met a war criminal or wannabe dictator whose boots he would not lick.

I don’t think I would want to live in the mad max thunderdome world where it wasn’t ok to punch Nazi’s.

It must be nice to never have abject racism thrown in your face every fucking day, huh?

The passive aggression is strong with you.

Karma is a bitch.

My personal favorite was, “You have to call the police now.” Oh, NOW you need someone to come save your worthless, racist behind when all you had to do was shut the fuck up in the first place. Three steps to the left and miss me with that, mmmkay?

This is what white people do, everyday in large and small ways to PoC. They antagonize and antagonize and antagonize you, it gives them a sense of false worth to feel better than. It’s their whole persona, being “better than”. “I may be poor, but at least I ain’t a nigger!” White people are fully aware of the…