I posted a link to a press conference that the chief of police for DC gave earlier this year in which she stated that hate crimes agains whites and latinos is on the rise in DC.
I don’t quite get this. You assumed that a woman named “Saqueesha” was black, at a business where 7/8ths of the female employees are black—your son confirmed that yes, those kinds of names are common among black people of his generation—and from this you concluded that you’re now a racist?
I’m saying, right? That post still makes no sense to me.
There’s also the part where she asks why can’t other people find jobs, and by “other” she apparently means races other than black? I mean, I guess if there was racism to be found in there, that might have been it. I think. I dunno, that post reads like a bunch of jabbering to me.
I was just rollin’ with it. If she said she had an epiphany, who am I to question it?
Yes, I saw that. The article gives no reason to think that white people are being robbed because they are white.
It does mention some people having “targeted” hispanics in robberies–but then immediately mentions that there’s no specific reason to think these people were targeted because they were hispanic.
Lifting an iPhone is not usually a hate crime. Usually it’s a “I’d like to steal an iPhone” kind of crime. There have been maybe 5 or 6 iPhone thefts in this area in the last couple of weeks. At least one of those was a black woman. There is no reason to believe this at all racially motivated.
Yes, this is the place to complain about sanctimony.
I’m talking about the posts by other DC residents, like Madmonk, Ravenman, and Caffiene.addict and others. As far as evidence goes, my evidence is living in this goddamn city nearly all my life, going back to the first Barry administration. I love it, but, as madmonk says, you have to be aware of its toxic racial politics.
I have to say I’m a little baffled by your incredulity. Violence motivated by race (or religion, ethnicity etc.) has existed since human prehistory. Why do you think this is some wild extraordinary claim?
I did not compare a group of white people walking away from a political rally to one seven foot tall black guy.
Please explain to me what the hell you are talking about.
Seems like another good example of a desire to find racism where it isn’t.
I brought up the Tea Party because they are so hated around here.
I dislike (hate if you want to equate it to feelings about Teabaggers) the followers of Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson and Wright to name a few . To the extent they follow those yahoos because of race its a bit difficult for me to separate the two.
What I’m dubious about is the notion that people in the OP’s neighborhood are robbing white people of their ipods because they are white–or that robberies in general in DC show any pattern of being motivated by racism.
I used to live in a Midlands town in England called Northampton that had large numbers of ethnic minorities, mostly Asian and West Indian.
There was a lot of street crime.
One of my mates was Jamaican and he had two adult daughters…
I remember them asking me to walk them home late one night as they were too scared to wait for a bus at the bus staion because there were a lot of West Indians hanging around there.
Racism or realsim ?
And in case you;re wondering it wasn’t a romantic pretext on their part, mores the pity.
Why exactly is that?
Is it the whole slavery civil rights thing or is it because their Democrat Plantation overseers are going to hammer you if you don’t?
There I go again…not being careful.
I don’t understand this post, but I do understand the question. The question’s answer is: Because if you call a black person a “nigger” you are likely to make him unnecessarily upset.
You’re missing the point. I don’t think that anyone is claiming that the thieves in the OP’s neighborhoods all hate white people and will therefore rob their Ipods. It’s more of a white people in the OP’s neighborhood are assumed to be rich gentrifiers therefore let’s rob them as they are more likely to have shit worth stealing.
Because of DC’s messed up history, the way white flight played out in the 40s, 50s and 60s, and the way that gentrification is playing out now, it isn’t an unreasonable assumption to make. DC has high income inequality which tends to correlate to race. There are rich black people and middle class black people as well, but a large number of them moved out to the suburbs in the 80s and 90s.
That being said, Iphone thefts have been an issue in DC.
If the Chief of the DC Police and the testimony of several long-term DC residents isn’t going to convince you, I don’t think anything will. So I am simply going to say that there is in fact a lot of racial animosity here, in large part fueled by economic inequality, but also by simple hate for the other. This is going to be a factor in street crime. Certainly not the only factor, perhaps not the main factor, but a factor. It’s not racist to point that out, nor is it an indictment of black people, anymore than the Klan is an indictment of all white people.
ETA: Caffeine.addict’s post wasn’t there as I was typing mine.
As has been explained, the chief of the DC police nor any testimony mentioned here has said anything about whether there is a pattern of robbery in DC targetting particular racial groups. It’s not that he can’t convince me, it’s that he’s not even trying. He’s not talking about what you and I are talking about.
That there are racial tensions in DC, that white people tend to be richer than non-white people, etc, even that there have been more hate crimes in DC lately, has nothing to do with whether the lady described in the OP was expressing a racist sentiment or not.
“You know how it is–they are targetting white people” means something very different from “People assume you’re rich because you’re white.”
Ok whatever, I’m done with this. You should come to DC and ride the B2 bus. Ride it at night and try to get everyone to join in a sing-along of Kumbayah.
Also, Chief Cathy Lanier is a she.
When come back bring relevance.
No.