And they don’t bat an eyelash at the young white women wearing hoodies while shoplifting in every mall in the country.

This confirms my uncharitable but absolutely correct belief how much people hate black people in close proximity to them and would nuke the planet if they could get rid of us.

Conservatives, white people, and particularly white conservatives, don’t have empathy.  They care about their family (at best) however they define that.  So the only way they can even hope to care about these issues is if someone in their family is affected by it.  Even then it’s a crap shoot - the white male…

I know gunshots from living in New Orleans.

Live in DC in a mostly gentrified neighborhood. We have the occasional “suspicious person” notifications, and stolen packages (sometimes they post video). But most crime posts are about gunshots. White people seem to think that any loud noise is a gunshot. I remember somebody set off a roman candle (whistle-pop) and a…

I always assumed that my neighbors were your typical middle class casual racists with the world’s pettiest problems. What Nextdoor taught me is how many of them are armed and eager to shoot at the slightest provocation over anything, including fights they’re happy to pick. I shut that app down toot-sweet.

I’m glad that White people are finally seeing themselves as we’ve always known them. Now they can decide if that’s who they want to be known as from here on, because, to us, that’s who most of them already are.

To a certain segment of the population, some things only appear threatening on people of colour, and particularly black people. They don’t bat an eye-lash at the skinny white woman wearing a hoodie over jeans, or the white guy in a hoodie and shorts: they are just wearing comfortable clothing.

Oh man, I lived in a gentrified neighborhood in Houston, which is a pretty diverse city. But the upper-middle-class “liberals” in my neighborhood were the WORST on Nextdoor about profiling every non-white person they saw walking down the street.

I think I love you

As a 6 foot tall, not small black dude, I’ve learned that unless I’m wearing a suit and smiling, some white person somewhere is gonna be uncomfortable with my mere presence. I have no idea what’s wrong with people like that but there seems to be a lot of them. I have to remind myself sometimes that its their problem,…

“I saw their racist things every day but it never bothered me until it affected me. In my head, these people weren’t angry racists. These were my childhood friends. They were like family to me. They were… they were just like me.”

I think I must have gotten banned from Nextdoor. I used to get all the racist headlines (“Teens Hanging Around Apartments,” “Suspicious Man Casing Houses,” etc...) and drop in to try to defuse some implicit bias, which would usually escalate to telling some old white people to stop being racist and putting black lives…

I just got a flyer in my door for my local Nextdoor group. As far as I am concerned my neighbors are the people in the houses next to and across the street from me. I know them by name and we talk about our respective house and yard projects. The rest are just people I nod to when I walk my dog.  And some of them…

There’s no way in hell I’m getting on that app. I need to preserve my sanity. My street is one of the popular routes for kids getting out of school and walking home because there’s also a playground on the corner. I already know what I’ll see.

I’m still dumbstruck, even as much as we know about racist morons, that a hooded sweatshirt is seen as a sign of “thugs”.  It's the perfect light jacket for mild weather.  What the fuck is wrong with people?!  

I had the app for a hot minute, until I noticed how the Gentry who’ve turned my little swathe of West Harlem into Park Slope North seemed to be the pettiest ass people in the Universe.  

Oh man, I feel for you.

It would need the phrase “Feel free to use other side of page, as you will need to”

How about we add this question to the 2020 Census: