Why would anyone read stories from 'the blaze' in the first place?
BTW-This is real. Try to catch a cab in NYC if you're a black man.
It's not an "everyday occurrence" as in YOU hear it everyday. It's an everyday occurrence as in this happens to your average person daily. Does it happen to you daily? Of course not, especially when your socially retarded self doesn't step outside - it's kind of impossible.
To the average person? Yes, it's very possible.
Why? Because of racist whites?BTW-This is real. Try to catch a cab in NYC if you're a black man.
Why? Because of racist whites?
Well said.Stop treating white people (or whoever you consider as qualifying as that label) as some unified group that deserves collective punishment. Racism is never going to go anywhere with attitudes like this.
This isn't about demanding balance, it's about having standards of fair conduct and respectful attitudes that aren't circumstantial.
Well said too.I can kind-of agree with your message here in that a massive injustice has been flowing in mostly one racial direction, and it has been for centuries. It still is today, as evidenced by the proportion of black people in jail for drugs as compared to white people in jail for drugs (amongst many other measures).
However, it's always fair to call out race-baiting (aka racism) when observed. We should worry about racism regardless of social conditions. The overall balance of racism should never be required in order to dislike racism from one particular side. We need to reach a place where racism is always wrong, no matter which side it is coming from, no matter which side has had it vastly worse, and no matter how racist it is on the scale. "Bad behavior is bad behavior" should never be followed by "But".
Race-baiting only furthers racist agendas on both sides and seeks to stereotype individual human beings into groups that are unrelated beyond perceived ethnic/racial identity. This only serves the purpose of those who desire the further Balkanization of our society. Dismissing or belittling a negative reaction to race-baiting only serves to further that agenda.
Well said three, and mmm for 5'-11" women. (In general - not a big fan of Michelle - or Jackie.) Although sometimes I just want to slap people for being stupid when literally every employee wears a particular uniform and they assume I work there.My wife is asked to get stuff off the shelf all of the time. She's 5'11" also. I am asked constantly. I also go into stores after work and am asked questions all of the time, especially if people have a major problem. Why? Because I dress nicely and they think I am a manager.
I have also been asked to park a car.
I have walked into stores and not a single sales person will talk to me. When I went to go buy my Omega I was ignored for 15mins while 3 sales people shot the shit. When we went to buy our house the sales lady dismissed us because she thought we couldn't afford the house.
Stuff happens all of the time, it isn't because people are racist.
Why would anyone read stories from 'the blaze' in the first place?
BTW-This is real. Try to catch a cab in NYC if you're a black man.
He needs to think for himself...I'm very curious how he will answer my question.Yep, all those white cab drivers in NYC.
Why? Because of racist whites?
Are their fears unfounded?No, it's because cabbies profile based on race and generally won't stop for black guys because they fear getting robbed.
No, it's because cabbies profile based on race and generally won't stop for black guys because they fear getting robbed.
Are their fears unfounded?
I'm just trying to figure out why there is so much rage here over this story. Bunch of white guys getting bent out of shape over something they've never experienced and trying to trivialize it makes no sense to me whatsoever.
Wait what? I've been asked to get something off the shelf before for someone.
That's not what the story was about and you know it. That was ONE comment in a 30 minute interview taken by itself for the sake of making the first lady look bad. That's what this article in "the blaze" is really about. Nothing more. It is pathetic...
This entire thread is literally about that comment. No one is denying there aren't racial problems in the US. There are plenty of examples of racial issues, but trying to spin examples of common courtesy into racist acts is not acceptable. We have enough issues to deal with without creating more out of nothing.
There's a reason for the taxi problem in NYC...the sooner you figure that out, the sooner you'll figure out where one's frustration should be more appropriately directed.Ask any black man who has never robbed a cab and cannot get a cab in NY. I'm not saying that it is unfounded but that doesn't make it right either and I'm sure it is very frustrating to deal with on a daily basis. I have friends who have been pulled over for nothing more than DWB.
I'm just trying to figure out why there is so much rage here over this story. Bunch of white guys getting bent out of shape over something they've never experienced and trying to trivialize it makes no sense to me whatsoever.
Like I said, it was one comment pulled from a 30 minute interview. Much ado about nothing... but then Glenn Beck has made an entire career out of that by pandering to any idiot who will listen to him.
Says the guy that lives in San Diego.
Like I said, it was one comment pulled from a 30 minute interview. Much ado about nothing... but then Glenn Beck has made an entire career out of that by pandering to any idiot who will listen to him.
Lots of people get shitcanned from very high level positions for just "one comment". Why are you giving the First Racebaiter... err Lady a pass?
LOL! What position do you propose we "shitcan" her from? Her marriage?
Besides, I see no reason to disbelieve her feelings on the matter. This isn't a Watergate or Benghazi hearing, she's just talking to the media about how she feels.
And she'd have completely gotten away with it had she not told the same story with a totally positive spin on it when on Letterman's show. A miniscule amount of people on her staff would have known the truth.This entire thread is literally about that comment. No one is denying there aren't racial problems in the US. There are plenty of examples of racial issues, but trying to spin examples of common courtesy into racist acts is not acceptable. We have enough issues to deal with without creating more out of nothing.