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OneEyedDiva

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These are the words of Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate who's inaugural poem touched the hearts of many. A security guard followed her to her apartment, demanding to know if she lived there because she "looked suspicious". I'm so sick of these kinds of stories. It's happening far too often! I'm glad she wasn't hurt during this experience but the guard didn't even apologized when he realized she did in fact live there. :mad: BTW, it's not only the reality of Black girls, it's the reality of Black and brown people.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/ente...-racially-profiled-security-guard/4604848001/
 

I'm sorry for prejudices and racism in the world. I don't know how life will be in the future for people of color and minorities in general but these feelings of animosity must change.

May I ask, what are your views of the world and what would you change if you could?

I'm white and for the most part I've never been involved with the law. Nor do I recall being profiled based on looks or character. I've seen law enforcement abuse their power to make an arrest and gain conviction based on dislike for the defendant for no reason other than skin color.

Obviously racism continues to be a global problem, I am curious to know if the world were to change in favor of people of color, what do you imagine your life to be like?
 
I have no reason to doubt what Ms Gorman said about being followed and told that she looked suspicious. On the other hand, I have no reason to believe her either.

I have been unable to find even a single reference to a witness or any video of the alleged incident. Maybe her account - the only account - is completely accurate. Or maybe it isn't. The fact that she lived there (or at least had keys) does not indicate whether she was, or was not, acting suspiciously. Maybe the security guard was racist, or maybe he was just doing his job.
 
I wonder if racism has taken a twist. Before when one saw a black person, as some whites thought, it was real easy to see that we descended from apes. But now, when one sees a black person, we see a drug dealing, violence prone, criminal, who on their best behavior would steal you blind. I remember a comment by a law enforcement officer about why he targeted the black area of town. He said he was not biased, he 'went where the crime was". It's that black=criminal idea.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I wonder if racism has taken a twist. Before when one saw a black person, as some whites thought, it was real easy to see that we descended from apes. But now, when one sees a black person, we see a drug dealing, violence prone, criminal, who on their best behavior would steal you blind. I remember a comment by a law enforcement officer about why he targeted the black area of town. He said he was not biased, he 'went where the crime was". It's that black=criminal idea.
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I dont see a see drug dealing violence prone criminal, I see a new friend.
 
raybar said:
I have no reason to doubt what Ms Gorman said about being followed and told that she looked suspicious. On the other hand, I have no reason to believe her either.

I have been unable to find even a single reference to a witness or any video of the alleged incident. Maybe her account - the only account - is completely accurate. Or maybe it isn't. The fact that she lived there (or at least had keys) does not indicate whether she was, or was not, acting suspiciously. Maybe the security guard was racist, or maybe he was just doing his job.
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Raybar, maybe this young woman, a world-famous poet, was making the whole story up, because she wasn't getting enough attention by reading her poem at the presidential inauguration. Or maybe she wasn't making it up.

Maybe she is a psychopathic liar. Or maybe she isn't.

Maybe all the people of color who have been targeted, threatened, attacked, and often killed, deserved to be treated that way. What were they doing in the "wrong" neighborhood, anyway? Or maybe they have been the targets of ignorant racism.

Maybe a normal amount of empathy and sensitivity resides in your soul. Or maybe it doesn't.

P.S. Why on earth should there be a witness or a video to an incident like this, in order for it to be believable? In the absence of those things, should we never believe what a perfectly decent, honest person says happened? Or should our implications that the person is lying only pop up when the person is Black?

(Last sentence removed. It might be considered political.)
 
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I believe it to be true. My brother who is a retired policeman in Miami has told many stories about their profiling. Sometimes it works out and sometimes not. They look for patterns of behavior. The fact that she had her keys and they fit her door changed everything.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
These are the words of Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate who's inaugural poem touched the hearts of many. A security guard followed her to her apartment, demanding to know if she lived there because she "looked suspicious". I'm so sick of these kinds of stories. It's happening far too often! I'm glad she wasn't hurt during this experience but the guard didn't even apologized when he realized she did in fact live there. :mad: BTW, it's not only the reality of Black girls, it's the reality of Black and brown people.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/ente...-racially-profiled-security-guard/4604848001/
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Things like this sicken me and they seem to be happening more frequently.
 

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