# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 510
**Author:** ![JVDaly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@JVDaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JVDaly)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/510 "2018-08-05T01:44:55Z")
> [@Banquet Bear](#): > > the question wasn’t "what Huey could do to be more “helpful.” It was “what should we do?” Black people kneel silently in protest. And they get accused of being unpatriotic by the most powerful person on the planet. So what should they do? The most powerful person on the planet is a stupid cunt. Huey Freeman doesn’t need this stupid cunt’s approval to protest, and it’s dishonest for him (and you) to pretend that he does. What should Huey do? Huey should do what Huey thinks is right. Simple. > [@](#): > > Is being angry about the things that this thread is about, “living while black in America”, "a walking caricature of everything the the right claims is true about black activists? No it fucking isn’t. This whole “living whole black” thing is overblown anyway. There are 350 million people in the USA. 250 million are white, 44 million are black, 1 million are cops, and these cops get about 270 million calls a year. The law of large numbers guarantees that some of those calls will be made by crazy, paranoid white people about black people. But it also guarantees that some of those calls will be made by crazy, paranoid white peoples about other white people. But “Crazy white guy calls cops on other white guy” isn’t exactly news. So you don’t get to hear about it. > [@](#): > > People are fucking angry. They are angrier than anything I’ve seen posted in the BBQ Pit. They are angry and they are scared. Because they are fighting for their lives. The reality is that they are living through something that most of us don’t have to live with. They’re not fighting for their lives. This isn’t Syria. Don’t be ridiculous. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611)._