Just remember.
This is for the African American group please.
By the way all my liberal white friends. You know I love you all. You are entitled to your opinion just like I am entitled to mine. Just remember that you can go into a store and shop without worry. This post is something I like to tittle "Just Remember."
Just remember you can go to a doctor's office and not have to have anyone else draw up worrying that you are going to steal their pocket book. (Yes that happened to me last year when I went to the doctor but I never picked up on it.)
Just remember you never have to worry about a police officer stopping you over your skin color.
Just remember you always get the best rates on a mortgage application.
Just remember you can live in any neighborhood in America and no one will question why you are here.
Just remember that you can carry a gun in the open and police won't question why you are there.
Just remember no one will ever call you an ape to your face.
Just remember police will go out there way to make sure you get home safely.
Just remember you can freely gather to protest without police trying to arrest you.
Just remember 314 people have died at the hands of police.
Just remember you will always get the best jobs over people of color.
Just remember you never have things handed to you on a silver platter.
Just remember people will never judge you based on your skin color.
Just remember, you were not relocated forcefully from your homeland.
Just remember, people are not trying to justify slavery to you or your descendents.
Just remember, that hatred is taught at a young age.
Finally, Just remember, we all bleed RED.
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that experienced by many older blacks who had migrated north to escape the oppression in the south (although northern oppression was rampant as well but in a different form). However they still wanted to touch base with their relatives who remained. And this brought about a quandary regarding safety when traveling around.
We once lived next door to an older professional black couple who were southerners with PhDs and whose own parents were physicians or dentists (they would be nearing their 100s now if they had still been alive). Yet when they made the annual trek by car back down south, the husband had to don a "chauffeur's cap" to help avoid being targeted once he crossed the Mason-Dixon Line. And we're talking all the way up into the 1990s. And God forbid, don't be a black male with a white (or even "white-looking"
woman in the car - again, unless you don "the cap" - literal "Driving Miss Daisy" style. See the ridiculously touted "Birth of a Nation" and "Gone With the Wind" for part of the problem of engraining stereotypes (let alone much of the modern entertainment fare that continues the perpetuation).
We are talking literal cultural conditioning that has so permeated into the fabric of the United States that it will probably take a century or more to eradicate the stench.
I'm forbidden from going into Zara as a result. 
Actually - I won't go in there anymore at all. He couldn't leave well enough alone. I was so embarrassed for those employees and manager when he was done with them. *hides head in a paperbag*
I love this group. Its members teach me so much. 
But, I'm feeling like this is such an important moment in US history,
esp. with regard to our racial injustice issues. 7 years into having
an African American POTUS, yet AA's are still getting murdered
instead of protected and served.
it's a WTF moment, in a good way, to wake us all up if only we can
start listening to one another in a new and deeper way. Thank you
for helping me see a bit more clearly into what PoC face every day.
