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In reply to the discussion: Black Man Was Stopped by Police for Sitting in His Car, Reading C.S. Lewis [View all]zentrum
(9,865 posts)15. Deep in their instinctive hearts
White people are so afraid of Black people because White people know that for 400 years White people have tortured, robbed, and impoverished Black people. Even if an individual White person feels they've done none of these things, they know their group, in history, and up to the present moment, has done great evil.
You're damn right Whites are afraid. So they call the cops over a "suspicious Black man in a car". They are so afraid of their own historynever atoned for, never set right.
We need truth and reconciliation trials, reparations and an admission of history. As well as economic and social justice. Then White people won't be so afraid and making such trouble in the lives of ordinary Black people just trying to live.
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Night Watchman
Jul 2016
OP
The fact he was reported as "suspicious black man" and that it was a wharf...
63splitwindow
Jul 2016
#11
Yeah I drive off and park somewhere and read poetry all the time. Then I leave...
63splitwindow
Jul 2016
#26
I still do not see how a cop pulling this guy over for being black could be construed as a wellness
63splitwindow
Jul 2016
#29