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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/21-things-you-cant-do-while-black?utm_medium=Facebook&utm_source=mjfb21 Things You Can't Do While Black
In the United States, sometimes your skin color is evidence enough against you.
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1. Listen to loud music at a gas station.
2. Walk home from a snack run to 7-11.
3. Wear a hoodie.
4. Drive after swimming.
5. Drive in a car with a white girl.
6. Appear in public in New York City.
7. Walk on the wrong side of the street.
8. Wait for a school bus to take you to your high school basketball game.
9. Drink iced tea in a parking lot.
10. Seek help after a car accident.
11. Inspect your own property.
12. Show up at your job.
13. Talk trash after an NFL game.
14. Throw a temper tantrum in kindergarten.
15. Buy designer accessories at Barneys.
16. Buy designer accessories at Macys.
17. Be a 13-year-old boy.
18. Enter your own home.
19. Botch a science experiment.
20. Be a tourist.
21. Lay face down in handcuffs.
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Yep, good old USA. Land of freedom and equality for all. What a bunch of bullshit that
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#1
I couldn't be black, too many rules. And some say there is no such thing as white privelege.
marble falls
Feb 2014
#7
Or work with a white girl, and then said white girl picks a place to eat she knows, and they go in
freshwest
Feb 2014
#47
Same thing happened to Obama, you know. I'm sure you handled it with undeserved grace. What did your
freshwest
Feb 2014
#50
22. Tell police the Medic Alert alarm rang erroneously and that you're really all right.
KansDem
Feb 2014
#11
You forgot, "Look for food in the aftermath of a major natural disaster"
Tommy_Carcetti
Feb 2014
#15
NOT having to even think about any of these things is defined as "white privilege", for those
Fred Sanders
Feb 2014
#17
Yes, the blissful state achieved by always being assumed innocent until proven guilty.
freshwest
Feb 2014
#43