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In reply to the discussion: White DUers: Tell Your Stories [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and treated very coldly and callously other times. My mom suffered from severe depression, and her "self medicating" with alcohol and our homelessness due to her inability to hold onto a job brought us to their attention too often. This was California mostly.
Some cops were kind enough. But looking back, I believe that bad conservative cops have no more tolerance for poor white children of dysfunctional mothers than they do for any others. I was an affront to their image of the "natural order" of white supremacy, and also an affirmation of the signature conservative world view that deserving people are rewarded and undeserving are punished.
That's the main reason that here in the south I don't do political bumper stickers on my beloved 20-year-old Ford Ranger. If it were a GMC Sierra, saying all the "right" things about me, I would. It'd also be insured for physical damage.