# Living while black in America **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611 "2018-07-09T21:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 62
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1223 "2018-10-13T16:12:33Z")
The kid’s backpack brushed her butt. It couldn’t possibly felt as though someone grabbed her butt. Idiot woman. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1224 "2018-10-13T16:26:34Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Babysitting while black](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/audio-reveals-white-woman-called-911-black-babysitter-because-she-n919541) > > White woman calls 911 when she sees a black man with two white children. > > Turns out he was babysitting the children. That feeling you have? That’s called racism. And it’s not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1225 "2018-10-14T21:56:02Z")
…white people [loot a store](https://twitter.com/ChrisLeaTV/status/1051314383396196354) in the aftermath of the recent hurricane. The [NYT](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/us/looting-stores-hurricane-michael.html)calls it [salvaging](https://twitter.com/ejacqui/status/1051117688590876673). ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1226 "2018-10-15T01:25:52Z")
[Woman interrogates and then tries to prevent a man from entering his own apartment.](https://www.kmov.com/news/woman-confronts-blocks-man-from-entering-his-luxury-downtown-st/article_f40f212e-cf57-11e8-90b6-dfba9a0bf0c7.html) After all of these embarrassing viral videos, one would assume people would start thinking twice before acting on their prejudiced impulses, _especially when they know they are being fucking recorded_. I seriously don’t understand how idiots like this are capable of functioning, I really don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1227 "2018-10-15T18:36:45Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > The kid’s backpack brushed her butt. It couldn’t possibly felt as though someone grabbed her butt. Idiot woman. Yes, indeed! If you think someone groped you, by all means keep quite about it! Isn’t that what we’re doing these days? 😕 Let’s revisit the issue in 2053. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1228 "2018-10-15T18:42:25Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yes, indeed! If you think someone groped you, by all means keep quite about it! > > Isn’t that what we’re doing these days? 😕 Let’s revisit the issue in 2053. You’re kinda stupid. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1229 "2018-10-15T20:50:34Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > [Woman interrogates and then tries to prevent a man from entering his own apartment.](https://www.kmov.com/news/woman-confronts-blocks-man-from-entering-his-luxury-downtown-st/article_f40f212e-cf57-11e8-90b6-dfba9a0bf0c7.html) > After all of these embarrassing viral videos, one would assume people would start thinking twice before acting on their prejudiced impulses, _especially when they know they are being fucking recorded_. I seriously don’t understand how idiots like this are capable of functioning, I really don’t. I just came across [the same story at the New York Times.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/hilary-brooke-apartment-patty-st-louis.html) Have incidents like this gone up, or are they just being reported more often? Often it feels like the Presidency of Trump, Hater-in-Chief, has motivated swarms of racists to come out of their ratholes and hate openly, proud that one of their fellow haters now rules the Land. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1230 "2018-10-15T21:01:21Z")
That’s the whole point of this thread. That much to white America’s surprise incidents like these are very real, ubiquitous, and have always been happening. Blame it on Trump if that makes you feel better. But it is business as usual for many in America. mc ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1231 "2018-10-15T21:06:07Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > [Woman interrogates and then tries to prevent a man from entering his own apartment.](https://www.kmov.com/news/woman-confronts-blocks-man-from-entering-his-luxury-downtown-st/article_f40f212e-cf57-11e8-90b6-dfba9a0bf0c7.html) > After all of these embarrassing viral videos, one would assume people would start thinking twice before acting on their prejudiced impulses, _especially when they know they are being fucking recorded_. I seriously don’t understand how idiots like this are capable of functioning, I really don’t. She has now been fired from her job. How is she going to claim she felt uncomfortable by this guy’s presence while literally stalking him all the way to his apartment? And how can she claim she did not know whether he belonged in the building when she saw with her own eyes that he possessed the key to get into his apartment? None of this makes sense. She should be fired for being so stupid. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1232 "2018-10-15T21:15:01Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I just came across [the same story at the New York Times.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/hilary-brooke-apartment-patty-st-louis.html) > > Have incidents like this gone up…? Nope. This same thing happened to me 20 years ago when I had the nerve to stay in an upscale building. Only thing new is the technology. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1233 "2018-10-15T22:39:54Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > She has now been fired from her job. > > How is she going to claim she felt uncomfortable by this guy’s presence while literally stalking him all the way to his apartment? And how can she claim she did not know whether he belonged in the building when she saw with her own eyes that he possessed the key to get into his apartment? None of this makes sense. She should be fired for being so stupid. > > Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk And did she ask herself how likely it is a prowler would care enough to film the encounter with his camera phone? When he started recording, that should’ve been her cue that maybe, just maybe, dude had more on his mind than breaking and entering. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1234 "2018-10-17T21:21:05Z")
[Vermont’s only black woman in the legislature has been hounded from her job by racists.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45661176?SThisFB&fbclid=IwAR0IXLgxVxtgv1eAOEhjhzTq_cIY5ZvLe2ciuMUjS9sebzXaiLYvaL2fZKo) This is heartbreaking. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1235 "2018-10-17T23:27:44Z")
[Golfcart Gail sics the police on a black father](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-woman-dubbed-golfcart-gail-calls-police-black-father-soccer-n921121?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1236 "2018-10-18T00:15:52Z")
_[Get Off the Bus](https://www.theroot.com/black-senior-citizens-in-georgia-ordered-off-bus-taking-1829809480)_. Racist voter intimidation with an extra helping of dickishness: Forty black senior citizens in Georgia (where else, right?) are ordered off the bus when going to vote. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1237 "2018-10-18T18:03:54Z")
White woman calls police on a line of black people who stopped a a gas station in the middle of a peaceful protest march to buy drinks > **['Gas Station Gail': Store manager calls police on parents and children buying...](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gas-station-gail-store-manager-calls-police-parents-children-buying-drinks-like-riot-201315580.html)** > > The group, which included adults as well as children ages 1 to 12, was coming from a peaceful "Stop the Violence" rally in North Charleston and just wanted some cold drinks. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1238 "2018-10-18T21:01:32Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > [Woman interrogates and then tries to prevent a man from entering his own apartment.](https://www.kmov.com/news/woman-confronts-blocks-man-from-entering-his-luxury-downtown-st/article_f40f212e-cf57-11e8-90b6-dfba9a0bf0c7.html) > After all of these embarrassing viral videos, one would assume people would start thinking twice before acting on their prejudiced impulses, _especially when they know they are being fucking recorded_. I seriously don’t understand how idiots like this are capable of functioning, I really don’t. My only melanin is in about a quarter million freckles, so I dunno–but I wonder, maybe the number of these incidents IS going down? I figure that there have to be some white folks who’d be thrilled to badger black people, but now that these videos are happening, they’re shamed out of doing so. Maybe before this phenomenon of filming the racist assholes, the numbers were far higher than they were today. I don’t recall seeing incidents like this, but like I said, as neither a perpetrator nor a target of such harassment, I wouldn’t know. I’m assuming the perpetrators aren’t gonna admit it here; but targets of harassment, do you have a sense that these videos are making harassment any rarer? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1239 "2018-10-28T18:15:09Z")
[White woman faces charges after harassing her black neighbors, telling them to leave](http://www.wfae.org/post/charlotte-woman-faces-charges-after-harassing-black-neighbors-telling-them-leave#stream/0) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1240 "2018-10-30T12:58:02Z")
I know this is clickbait but it is so infuriating. > **[What Unfolded Inside Taco Bell After A Tired Soldier Was Approached By 2...](https://newsd.co/unfolded-inside-taco-bell-tired-soldier-approached-2-suspicious-figures-made-real-life-hero/?utm_campaign=taco-sol-m-g&utm_medium=m&utm_source=gemini&k=y6324&utm_term=NEWS_US&utm_content=1&sp=2)** > > We all go for our jobs, profession or business but most of us leave our office work before we leave our workspace. In every office, there are people who work not only at the office but from home too. Trust us when we tell you we understand what it... Here’s the story: a solider goes into a Taco Bell. A nine year old and a 13 year old ask him if he wants to support a church bake sale. Soldier instead buys the kids some tacos. That’s it. Put that in the hands of the Internet, and you get “(White) Army hero saves the futures of two hooded thugs.” Give me a fucking break. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1241 "2018-10-30T14:56:11Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > _[Get Off the Bus](https://www.theroot.com/black-senior-citizens-in-georgia-ordered-off-bus-taking-1829809480)_. > Racist voter intimidation with an extra helping of dickishness: Forty black senior citizens in Georgia (where else, right?) are ordered off the bus when going to vote. Holy shit! That’s just evil. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1242 "2018-10-30T16:03:43Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I know this is clickbait but it is so infuriating. > > [What Unfolded Inside Taco Bell After A Tired Soldier Was Approached By 2 Suspicious Figures Made Him A Real Life Hero - NewsD](https://newsd.co/unfolded-inside-taco-bell-tired-soldier-approached-2-suspicious-figures-made-real-life-hero/?utm_campaign=taco-sol-m-g&utm_medium=m&utm_source=gemini&k=y6324&utm_term=NEWS_US&utm_content=1&sp=2) > > Here’s the story: a solider goes into a Taco Bell. A nine year old and a 13 year old ask him if he wants to support a church bake sale. Soldier instead buys the kids some tacos. That’s it. > > Put that in the hands of the Internet, and you get “(White) Army hero saves the futures of two hooded thugs.” > > Give me a fucking break. Glurge is bad enough, but _multi-page slideshow glurge_ should be a capital offense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611.md?page=63)