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In reply to the discussion: If you are white, did your parents give you "the talk" about how to behave around police? [View all]Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Even as I got older my folks never implied otherwise.
In fact, when I was around 30 my dad was my biggest supporter when I participated in civil disobedience that we knew would result in arrest (anti-war).
How's that for white privilege? Being able to get arrested ON PURPOSE because the system doesn't have it out for me, because I never had a record before (despite breaking the law on a regular basis w/ weed, speeding, etc including getting pulled over once with enough pot/acid to put me in jail for decades due to mandatory minimums).
eta: I almost wrote that "I had to learn it the hard way" regarding the truth about the cops, but that's bullshit too, because as a white middle class person it was never too hard. Witnessed some ugly stuff in small town PA and a couple other places while traveling in a van full of hippies, but even that is nothing compared to the brutality and injustice against POC.
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