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@bdizzle
@Matt504
@mcdivit85
@Elle Driver
@MarsPunka
@Theraflu
So, I just came back from helping my mom out with some errands today at the mall. For those of you that don't know, I've been staying in Pittsburgh with the family (they stay in a lily white suburb) for the time being until I head back to NYC in January.
My mom was talking to me about there being a recent string of shootings in Pittsburgh and telling me that I need to be careful where I go (since I just got my driver's license renewed today). And I was asking her "is it about cops shooting unarmed people" and she goes..."no it's about black men shooting other black men"...
I just had to hit her with the
as soon as I heard that especially from being on here discussing this recent string of police incited violence against black people in the wake of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and numerous other victims (RIP) and then we got into an argument. I told her how the whole "what about black on black crime" BS has decreased in years past (thanks to graphs and info provided on here) and I'm asked her "so you're saying I should be afraid of my own people when cops are lighting up black men and getting away with it?" and I'm basically saying to her without saying to her said "I'm not afraid of other black people like you".
I told her "I've had more problems with police than I've had with other black people" and that I felt "less safe where they are (in the burbs) then in the city" and that I'd rather be around other black people instead of getting dirty looks being one of the few black men in their whole neighborhood.
She kept on deflecting by saying "calm down" "why are you talking like this? you never used to talk like this?"
(what she meant by that was talking like AAs and "ghetto" and "street" and hood and not like whitewashed brand new Africans/West Indians trying to separate themselves from other black americans)
It was sad to say the least
That's what happens when you're one of the few black families in a predominantly white neighborhood and are happy being tokens...you get a false sense of "belonging" when after living on my own for 12 years, living in NYC for 2 of those years and separating myself from that mentality they had I knew better.
My mom and older sister are sadly on that
bullshyt.
@Matt504
@mcdivit85
@Elle Driver
@MarsPunka
@Theraflu
So, I just came back from helping my mom out with some errands today at the mall. For those of you that don't know, I've been staying in Pittsburgh with the family (they stay in a lily white suburb) for the time being until I head back to NYC in January.
My mom was talking to me about there being a recent string of shootings in Pittsburgh and telling me that I need to be careful where I go (since I just got my driver's license renewed today). And I was asking her "is it about cops shooting unarmed people" and she goes..."no it's about black men shooting other black men"...
I just had to hit her with the
as soon as I heard that especially from being on here discussing this recent string of police incited violence against black people in the wake of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and numerous other victims (RIP) and then we got into an argument. I told her how the whole "what about black on black crime" BS has decreased in years past (thanks to graphs and info provided on here) and I'm asked her "so you're saying I should be afraid of my own people when cops are lighting up black men and getting away with it?" and I'm basically saying to her without saying to her said "I'm not afraid of other black people like you".I told her "I've had more problems with police than I've had with other black people" and that I felt "less safe where they are (in the burbs) then in the city" and that I'd rather be around other black people instead of getting dirty looks being one of the few black men in their whole neighborhood.
She kept on deflecting by saying "calm down" "why are you talking like this? you never used to talk like this?"
(what she meant by that was talking like AAs and "ghetto" and "street" and hood and not like whitewashed brand new Africans/West Indians trying to separate themselves from other black americans)
It was sad to say the least
That's what happens when you're one of the few black families in a predominantly white neighborhood and are happy being tokens...you get a false sense of "belonging" when after living on my own for 12 years, living in NYC for 2 of those years and separating myself from that mentality they had I knew better.
My mom and older sister are sadly on that
bullshyt.
