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AAAAAANNNNDDD Ele4phant gets it!!! This entire thread she has gives very weak facts to support her belief that because he is white, he will be more likely to be victim of a crime. It just seems to me that Mimosa is making this a race issue when it simply isn’t one. It makes her SEEM racist. Also, the reason why Cleopatra is so concerned with your use of the term colored people is because it was so unnecessarily inflammatory. You didn’t have to go there to make your point, and you really shouldn’t have. It did not even serve to convey your point clearly.
But did that shooting occur BECAUSE he was white Mimosa, or was he an unintended victim caught in the middle of crossfire? I get what your saying but have there actually been a number of racially motivated crimes also known as hate crimes?
@veracityb we believe she hold racist views because she implies that the neighborhood is bad because it’s poor and black! But you haven’t been nearly as zealous about pointing that out. I gave my personal experience not to comment on whether the statements are racist or not but whether they are threatening and I believe it unreasonable to think those comments evince the threat someone is going to commit a crime against you. You have the right to feel whatever you feel, but that doesn’t make your feelings rational. What gives my position more credence is that her boyfriend, the subject of the comments, is completely UNBOTHERED. Mimosa admits she has anxiety issues and I think it’s very likely the comments bother her more because of that than anything else.
“incidents like this make up systemic racism”
wait, veracityb, are you saying that there is systematic racism against white people because that’s just false. And saying “white boys going to the club” “white people didn’t park right” is AGGRESSIVE and THREATENING? Seriously? It actually sounds innocuous to me, I get identical comment likes this in Rogers Park, Chicago sometimes and it always comes across as harmless ribbing to me. But even if it is taken as exclusionary, it certainly is not so threatening that it evinces a likelihood that people are going to commit crimes against you because your white. That’s just absurd. Those comments don’t indicate criminality. You and mimosa have no legitimate basis to believe that because a few times her boyfriend’s race was pointed out he is going to be criminally victimized because of his race.
Mimosa, you say “race is a known factor of many crimes in my BF’s neighborhood.” What does that mean? This entire thread you’ve never stated that there are hate crimes in the neighborhood, and that crimes are committed against white people solely because they’re white. You just keep saying it’s a factor and then throw in examples of prejudice you’ve experienced. But you never actually state HOW it’s a factor. You’re so nonspecific. Which is why to me, you seem to be implying that because the neighborhood is all black it is cause for you to be afraid for your boyfriend’s safety.
