Black man breaking into car vs. a white man breaking into car

[woolldog]

Fascinating...

[RoverSuswade]

1. USA! USA! USA!

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[M0rpheus]

2. The black guy is lucky he didn't get shot or tased! nt

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[valerief]

9. Absolutely! nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

20. For real. Putting his life in the hands of his white friends took some faith. n/t

[M0rpheus]

25. I don't have anywhere near that much faith.

Situations like that could easily get out of control and wind up as another urban tragedy.

[Egalitarian Thug]

26. That's what I thought, too. LAPD executes people so regularly that most of

the time it gets noting more than 2 inches on the back page of the metro section.

[treestar]

28. Yeah, it was risky for him to even participate in that

[M0rpheus]

31. If he didn't know before he knows now.

Notice that the first cop escalated the encounter from the beginning, while they simply passed by the first guy with the alarm going off.

I would have told my friend to find someone else.

[temporary311]

3. I recall

something similar to this being done with bikes at a park. Not only were the results what you would expect when it was a white guy vs a black guy, but it truly went off the rails when it was a white girl. If my memory is right, folks offered to help her.

[ZombieHorde]

4. I remember that. nt

[woolldog]

5. Yup. Here it is.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. What would you do?

[DesertDiamond]

21. Really?? Wow. I'm in the wrong business. LOL!

[treestar]

29. Yes, I thought of that too

[freshwest]

6. Example of a white man breaking into a car:

[Marie Marie]

10. Oh freshwest - that is great.

And yet, he is not in jail.. I don't understand??

[hollowdweller]

8. Michael Moore

Had this show back in the 90's.

In one segment he put a black actor on one street nicely dressed.

On another a former convict.

Then they tried to hail cabs.

The white convict got picked up over and over. The black guy never.

Little films like this are good. Makes people think.

[sweetloukillbot]

16. TV Nation - I loved that show

It was Yaphet Kotto - from Live and Let Die and Alien who was hailing the cab. That show was my first introduction to Westboro Baptist Church as well - he had a great segment on them as well.

[Solly Mack]

11. K&R

[jsr]

12. There is no racism

[frazzled]

13. I don't know if this was already posted ...

But it's germane to the conversation:



http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/02/cartoonist_keith_knight_wants_you_to_know_your_gang_signs.html

[jsr]

14. +1

[Th1onein]

22. This is great! Thank you for posting!

[kjones]

32. Entirely honest, I didn't even notice the b/w until after I'd read everything

I thought the point was that they were identical.
Until I noticed they were identical (except race).

[frazzled]

33. I guess that's what makes a good cartoon

By making you look closely, it makes you think and construct the argument for yourself.

I'd seen this posted by a friend on Facebook, and frankly, I didn't know the web site from which it came. It's pretty interesting and useful on topics of race, gender, etc.

[tofuandbeer]

15. Holy Chripes!!! Did you see all the police there? There must have been dozens of 911 calls!

Sad.

[Vashta Nerada]

17. We still have a long way to go when it comes to race in this country.

[blkmusclmachine]

18. ,

,

[Cali_Democrat]

23. Then what boggles the mind even more....

are the folks who insist racism no longer exists. These same folks claim the gunning down of unarmed black teens like Trayvon and Jordan Davis had nothing to do with race.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

24. wow. crazy.

[DLevine]

27. Hate to say it, but this doesn't surprise me.

White privilege, racial profiling. Sickening.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

30. Looting for food vs. finding food