What Events Have You Experienced That Have Restored Faith in Humanity?(BASED THREAD)

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

im bout to watch Its a Wonderful Life

 

[Metta World Movement]

I know it's not technically an event I experienced, but I gotta mention it anyway.....I remember I was on youtube checking a bunch of them 20/20 'What Would You Do' segments (where they set up situations for strangers to witness, and see how they react to it)

A lot of those situations were based on racial shyt; segments that showed shyt like strangers witnessing a person being blatantly discriminated against in a restaurant/shop because of their race....and most of the white witnesses defended the person who was discriminated against

I remember one where a person (I think it was a woman) who was dressed up like a stereotypical Muslim, was dealing with an a$$hole employee in some store who was denying them service, calling the person a terrorist and other ignorant shyt. A lot of the white witnesses in that one strongly defended the person, and told dude about his ass. One of them I remember in particular was this old white dude who started crying after talking down to the dude.....he was saying shyt like he couldn't believe racism & ignorance still existed on that level where he lived

Even though a small part of me was like @ him not realizing just how hateful some of his fellow whites could be to other races, a bigger part of me was still like because you could tell dude meant well, and really felt what the the 'Muslim' went through

Hopefully that shyt wasn't staged though....I can't help but doubt any 'reality'-type shows like that...but the shyt DID look real/unscripted

There was another one in a bar where they had some dude complain to this interracial couple about them kissing in public or something like that. A lot of whites in that one defended the couple...but there was this one nikka whose reaction was PRICELESS when he heard the hatin'-ass dude go off on the couple.....dude's jaw damn near hit the floor ....his face was like a gay version of

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Saw this posted to of all places, /b/:

 

[concise]

ok, so a few weeks ago, my mother and I went grocery shopping and she wanted to buy some stuff for this old lady at church who lives in an apartment building...

We get there and she pulls out the stuff that's going to this old lady and I stay behind in the car because it's a crowded block and I'm double parked; I must stay and watch for those handing out parking tickets

She rings the bell from the outside and waits for the old lady to come down and bring her cart down to get the stuff. No answer. Walking down the street, I see 4 young guys, saggy pants and all, maybe 16-18, and it appears my mom has sumoned them. It was a lot of stuff, after all.

Now they're all holding a couple of items and talking. Looks like it's been a minute or 2 so they start ringing every bell. They all break out in laughter. Someone leaving eventually opens the door to the building and the things get delivered.

She gets back in the car. "Oh! Those boys so nice! ..."

 

[Nemesis]

Romney losing.....

 

[Mr. Pink]

I don't want to ruin the mood of this thread, but it says a lot about how fukked up our world is when the stories in this thread, most of which are just basic human decency and compassion, are considered extraordinary.

Was the world always like this brehs?

 

[Cat piss martini]

the filthy rich falling on hard times..

 

[concise]

I don't want to ruin the mood of this thread, but it says a lot about how fukked up our world is when the stories in this thread, most of which are just basic human decency and compassion, are considered extraordinary.

Was the world always like this brehs?

Are they really basic? Do we see them that often?

I think it says sometimes we underestimate the effects of the "little things" like people tend to do when they've been doing things awhile like sports, driving, relationships, etc.

 

[Takerstani]

They have a program where you take a name of a kid who otherwise wouldn't get anything for Christmas and buy them something off the list. One of my people got the name of a little boy and bought him ALL the gifts he asked for. I know he had a fun Christmas.

 

[SumBlackguyz]

I don't want to ruin the mood of this thread, but it says a lot about how fukked up our world is when the stories in this thread, most of which are just basic human decency and compassion, are considered extraordinary.

Was the world always like this brehs?

before materialism corrupted the very core of our society, friend.

 

[dennis roadman]

think about this - the news reports stories deemed interesting, and discounting necessary information like the goings-on of government, they report them largely because they don't happen to all or most of us. almost everyone can come up with accounts of human decency whether it was for or by them. this IS the norm, so much that we don't talk about it as much.

there's an old historian's axiom that says that if it's been written down, it was unique

 

[SumBlackguyz]

26 Moments That Restored Our Faith In Humanity This Year
26 Moments That Restored Our Faith In Humanity This Year
1. The parents who made their son's wheelchair into the best Halloween costume ever

3. A kind stranger who stopped a day from being ruined

10. And the police officers who made blind 13-year-old Gage Hancock-Stevens' dream of being a cop come true

 

[Pool_Shark]

I needed this thread. This is the kind of stuff I was looking for on the net.

Something that's happened to me a lot of times is I get pulled over driving with no license/suspended license, no insurance, and a bunch of other stuff. 9/10 times the cop lets me go and just tells me to get it fixed. Not everywhere is like this though I'm sure.

A boy with severe allergies attends school via his avatar, VGo the robot, to the delight of his classmates, who take it all in stride.

WEST SENECA, N.Y. — In a school hallway, a U.S. teacher takes her students to the library, leading a single-file line of giggling boys and girls that's perfectly ordinary until you get to a sleek white robot with a video screen showing the face of a smiling, chubby-cheeked boy.

Devon Carrow's life-threatening allergies don't allow him to go to school. But the robot with a wireless video hookup gives him the school experience remotely, allowing him to participate in class, stroll through the hallways, hang out at recess and even take to the auditorium stage when there's a show.

What's most remarkable is how unremarkable this technology is viewed by his classmates. In a class of 7-year-olds raised on video games, avatars and remote-controlled toys, they don't see a robot. They just see Devon.

Just before class one recent day, a girl leaned toward the robot to tell Devon the joke making the rounds at school: Why did the boy eat his homework? The teacher told him it was a piece of cake.

While making get-well cards for him during a hospital stay last year, his classmates all drew him as a boy, not a bot.

"In the classroom, the kids are like, 'Devon, come over, we're doing Legos. Show us your Legos,'" says teacher Dawn Voelker.

"I wondered how the little kids would take to him, thinking they'd be amazed," adds Principal Kathleen Brachmann. "But I think kids are so tech-savvy now that they accept it more than we do."

Even Devon doesn't quite get what all the fuss is about. Steering the four-wheeled robot through school and spinning around to see the classmates is just another mouse-and-keyboard challenge.

My classmate, the robot: NY pupil attends remotely

 

[Why-Fi]

my wife and i caught a flat on the beltway. it was my wifes car...meaning no jack and all that. this mexican dude pulled up behind us, gave us a head nod, went in his trunk and got everything and changed our joint. about as fast as im telling the story is about how fast it happened. when he was done he put his stuff back and i kinda followed him and talked to him while my wife was in the car digging in her purse to get money for him. he just got in his truck and sped off. i was like yo hold on!

got back to the car my wife said why did he leave? i said she said did you get his contact information? i said nah just his name. she said well what did he say his name was?

"angel"

 

[CaughtInTWebb]

Dope ass threads and some of these stories gave me chills....