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In reply to the discussion: Read This Before Calling the Police: For Wypipo Who Have Considered Cops When Privilege Wasn't Enoug [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)50. All that black stuff is a problem
Otherwise, it's fine.
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Read This Before Calling the Police: For Wypipo Who Have Considered Cops When Privilege Wasn't Enoug [View all]
sheshe2
May 2018
OP
K&R. Self-reflective questions in these situations like these are so important for people with
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2018
#4
Speaking as a PoC, it is a hipster-net-speak neologism that Putin et alia adore
Exotica
May 2018
#11
I agree wholeheartedly. DU has become racially abusive and unwelcoming IMO.
Trust Buster
May 2018
#13
He never marched WITH Martin, he was AT the 1963 March on Washington, along with 300K others.
George II
May 2018
#56
When someone is crawling through your window, of course you're going to call the police
gollygee
May 2018
#25
What are the statistics regarding napping college students and dads pushing babies in strollers? nt
gollygee
May 2018
#42
Racists almost always think they have a non-race-based reason for their reactions
EffieBlack
May 2018
#51
White people are far more likely to be the victim of white on white crime than of a black perpetrato
EffieBlack
May 2018
#46
White people who call police on black people for no reason "Irrationals." Black people who call
EffieBlack
May 2018
#44
Privilege doesn't cancel out racism. Privilege is the sense of entitlement that you have every right
EffieBlack
May 2018
#98
They may be a "minority" but that "minority" has a significant and devastating impact on people and
EffieBlack
May 2018
#112
The influence of subjectivity on crime statistics would more affect lesser crimes.
Top-Hat
May 2018
#134
It is probably best that bigots self identify with the use of a racial pejorative
Bok_Tukalo
May 2018
#79
You mean like calling police on an innocent black person because you heard that black people
EffieBlack
May 2018
#129
Which is exactly why we don't need more cops (with guns and handcuffs) in schools!
Sancho
May 2018
#110