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Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 08:11 AM Aug 2015

Just remember. [View all]

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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Just remember. [View all] Coolest Ranger Aug 2015 OP
I'm listening and learning. PeaceNikki Aug 2015 #1
I can do more than that. stone space Aug 2015 #2
Some times "white pass" doesn't work. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2015 #9
We were swimming at a local swimming hole once. stone space Aug 2015 #11
I told this story before here... DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2015 #13
What you describe is not too dissimilar from BumRushDaShow Aug 2015 #15
My husband noted that same thing JustAnotherGen Aug 2015 #16
So well said mcar Aug 2015 #3
Thanks for describing how we lack the privilege of living within a cocoon of white normality MrScorpio Aug 2015 #4
thank you ellennelle Aug 2015 #5
k&r Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #6
K&R. nt tblue37 Aug 2015 #7
Well written winterwar Aug 2015 #8
Thank you for laying this all out so clearly. I'm just an old white guy. 99th_Monkey Aug 2015 #10
Thanks for the post! ybbor Aug 2015 #12
A Kick and A Rec for the East Coast Lunch Hour JustAnotherGen Aug 2015 #14
Kick for the east coast after work crowd Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #17
Thanks, CR, needs to be posted in the paper or on Thom Hartmann's show. freshwest Aug 2015 #18
Damn straight! JustAnotherGen Aug 2015 #20
A late day kick JustAnotherGen Aug 2015 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author Nye Bevan Aug 2015 #21
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