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From the article...."This latest viral video in the ongoing series of white people calling the police on black people features a white woman who is either drunk, high, suffering a bout of mental illness, or just white, making a 911 call while lounging poolside at an Oklahoma City apartment complex.
When the first video posted to Facebook begins, the woman is already on the phone with the authorities. When Poolside Patty hangs up, a woman identified as JaMaya Burleson asks the woman why she called the police......
And then, holding back tears, Pat the Crestfallen Pool Girl explains to the officer how much it hurt her to see the other black people laughing and taking pictures. Then she alleges that one of the black women threatened her (which the witnesses deny).....
The officer interrupts the white woman and informs her that he has patrolled that apartment complex for three years and didnt even know the pool existed until another man flagged him down and told him that a short little blond lady was at the pool causing a scene because she was drunk or on something. .....
When it was her turn, the black women tries to calmly explain the situation, but Patty interrupts with sobs, explaining how scared she was of the people who, she admits, did absolutely nothing to harm her (unless you count her frail, alabaster sense of entitlement). Finally, the cop realizes that Patty is actually on something, and decides to leave.
The something that Patty was on is called white privilege.
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irisblue
(32,982 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)You're right. It was worth the read.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)"who is either drunk, high, suffering a bout of mental illness, or just white"
That made me laugh out loud.
Second, one of the number one ways cops get aggressive with POC is by claiming they are on something. It starts questions about a possible search, getting the person to look guilty if the don't grant it, so then an actual search occurs. Poolside Patty should have been dealt with in the same manner.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Michael Harriot
World-renowned wypipologist. Getter and doer of "it." Never reneged, never will. Last real negus alive.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)malaise
(269,056 posts)LWB
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Speak directly to the Rump. Tell him all your white woes. Commiserate with someone who will actually understand your pain.
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)white privilege
zentrum
(9,865 posts)while alabaster.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)taken the caller away in cuffs....you know, set an example....
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)the person who called 911 because burger king didn't leave the pickles off his/her burger. okay, details not correct.
here it is.
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)If poolside patty was a POC and the cop determined she was "on something" I'd guess an arrest would have been made. Talk about white privilege!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Bettie
(16,110 posts)WTF lady?
Cops need to start arresting people who waste their time on stuff like this.
And if "Patty" was on something, they should have, if not arrested her, walked her back to her apartment to sleep it off and let the people who were at the pool to relax and have fun get on with their day.
Patty is one of those people who ruin it (whatever "it" is in any situation) for everyone else.
irisblue
(32,982 posts)yardwork
(61,650 posts)There doesn't seem to be anything overtly racist in this woman's actions. She's drunk and mentally ill.
irisblue
(32,982 posts)Is a pretty privileged & entitled response. On both videos, her behavior may/maynot be 'chemically enhanced'.
YMMV