White people

[catbyte]

Link to tweet

White people

"Why do minorities make such a big deal out of their race? Why can't they just refuse to see color?"

Also white people

"Hello 911 there's a suspicious black man outside please send someone. What do you mean he's my neighbor and this is the 4th time I've called?"
11:47 AM - Jul 4, 2018

[catbyte]

2. Who?

[elehhhhna]

4. Hey a mirror

[catbyte]

9. Seriously? with this sort of bullshit happening on a daily basis?

Walgreens calls cops on black man with diabetes for trying to buy product for insulin pump scarring

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/walgreens-calls-cops-black-man-diabetes-trying-buy-product-insulin-pump-scarring/?comments=disqus

So calling out White hypocrisy is now being "divisive? Wow. I'm so sorry to have insulted your delicate White sensibilities.

[EffieBlack]

30. This is for you

Link to tweet

[catbyte]

32. Thank you.

I thought that fellow DU members--of all people--would know what I was getting at, but sadly I was wrong. I've been here since 2002, and I now understand why so many long-timers have abandoned DU. It's not the same place as it was. It's still home, though. Thanks again.

[paleotn]

13. Projecting?

[elehhhhna]

3. More divisive garbage

[EffieBlack]

5. Why do you think it' "divisive?"

Did this OP divide you from someone with whom you'd otherwise be united? Did it cause you to change your view about or commitment to racial equality and fairness.

What specifically is "divisive" about it?

[lancelyons]

12. Because its offensive to white people who are on this board.

Im not racists but those statements are racists. All white people are not like that.

The OP should be ashamed.

[catbyte]

15. I'm not ashamed in the least. The only people who have the luxury of "ignoring color"

are white, and the sooner folks realize that the better off we all will be. I'm Ojibwe/French Canadian/Irish who can pass as white, so I'm not one of those darker people with a chip on my shoulder that you seem to think I am. Frankly, I'm gobsmacked that you found my post so offensive given all of the "Cops-Were-Called-by-White-Folks-because-Fill-in-the-Blanks-While-Black" posts lately. I'm ashamed of YOUR attitude.

[kwassa]

16. I'm white and I am not offended.

and no one said all white people are like anything.

[NY_20th]

17. I'm white. I'm not offended.

There is nothing racist in the tweet.

White people do indeed say such things. I hear it all of the time.

Racism and bigotry will not go away if people refuse to see it and acknowledge it.

[MrsCoffee]

19. I'm white and I'm offended by those who are offended.

[brush]

20. Now you're talking. Good post.

[ck4829]

26. Nice

[ck4829]

25. I'm not offended by it

[EffieBlack]

28. Offensive is not the same thing as divisive

If a white person is not a racist, from whom does a comment by someone they don't know divide them? Does it make them less not racist?

How exactly is the OP "divisive?"

[ck4829]

29. It seems to me a *lot* of people misuse the word 'divisive'

We see "X is divisive" being used when people could also say "X is something I don't want to look at, talk about, or even think about. You bringing up X is something I consider rude and I would prefer it if we just didn't talk about it."

I picture it like there's a rhino tearing stuff up in a room and people just want to keep doing their thing, and the first person who says "Hey there's a rhino here" is treated like the troublemaker.

[EffieBlack]

31. Exactly

"Divisive" is a euphemism for "a black person or a white ally said something true about race that makes me uncomfortable" and I need to shut them down.

[sheshe2]

34. I'm white.

It didn't bother me at all and see it for the truth.

[Pacifist Patriot]

36. The white people who are offended

need to take off their rose-colored glasses and see our world as it really is.

If you're offended, thank your white privilege.

[OnDoutside]

8. +1

[paleotn]

11. You don't get it, do you.

[nini]

33. As a white person I do not believe this is divisive

This is a real problem we have in this country and to keep getting butt hurt over it being brought up is simply putting your head in the sand. Of course it makes people uncomfortable and it sure as hell should.

We have to continue to confront this crap and call out people who seem to not even realize they're racist. They're the worst kind when they try and hide behind some kind of political correctness on one hand, then use the other to dial the cops to report someone 'suspicious' aka POC.

[LanternWaste]

37. That's a most convenient label to slap onto any conversations about race.

And I'm somewhat certain you may even believe it, more's the pity...

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Nice post, catbyte.

To the posters who see this as divisive: I don't see anything divisive about this. The minority perspective is something that the Democratic party had better embrace because this is a reality that we all live with. While you're trying to shut us down, that select group of Anglo-Americans that identify with the Republican party are embracing their ancestors by staking out parts of the country and populating them with their family members, while they try to push us out in subtle ways. Just look around and take an audit of red counties to find how many places were named with the word "Heritage" and "Legacy" within the last twenty years. Once they dig in and become a dominant force in a community, everyone else has to put up with their racist and exclusionary nonsense.

That means that the police will tend to take their side whenever they call to report on their neighbors. Not a good feeling when you realize how often they meet privately to use our boards for their own personal benefit.

[treestar]

7. They are white people who don't take the slightest time

to attempt to learn about other peoples' lives. They assume they are the same.

Like the white person who wonders why don't people in the black ghettoes simply go to college and get a good job?

Or why don't Central Americans stay in their countries to improve them? They just can't imagine the situation. And the media is no good at relaying much information.

They think the whole world is one big suburb just like the ones they grew up in.

[pazzyanne]

14. Love your post. Simple and straight to the point.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Truth hurts, sometimes.

[George II]

18. SOME "white people".

[NY_20th]

23. Far too many white people

Link to tweet

[B Stieg]

21. "Wypipo"

I think that's how those darn kids characterize such "exploits" these days.

[ladym55]

22. I have some recommended reading for people

Waking Up White by Debby Wright. It might help some of the pearl-clutching that I keep seeing on DU.

I am a 63-year-old white woman. I have enjoyed something called white privilege all of my life. That meant that my son could go jogging without his ID and not end up at the police station (cuz he looked suspicious in his own neighborhood). That was not the case for the son of my AA co-worker. My daughter can drive and not get pulled over regularly (unlike her AA coworker).

People of color experience life much differently than I do every day. I don't get asked "No, really, where are you FROM?" I don't get followed in the drug store. I won't have the cops called me when I canvass for a political candidate. If I had fallen asleep in the common room of my dorm, I would not be awakened by a cop asking if I belong there.

We need to be woke, and we need to recognize racism that pervades every aspect of our society.

[NY_20th]

24. Exactly.

It needs to be recognized and acknowledged.

Wonderful post.

[catbyte]

27. Exactly. Thank you.

[sheshe2]

35. Thank you, catbyte.