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_refugee_  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where Is America's Real Youth Rebellion?

Fuck off. I feel guilty for having gotten away with crimes I know black people wouldn't get away with. That's not about protesting that's about my lived experience demonstrating to me that because I'm not a young black male I haven't gotten in trouble for shit. I'm allowed to recognize that disparity and feel that it's wrong and feel guilty for having been let loose because there's an expectation that I'm not "trouble" because of the way I look. I've been in situations, talking to the cops and lying through my teeth, where a person of the same age but a different demographic would have been arrested and I've walked away scott free.

It's stupid, by the way, if you think telling the cops the absolute truth is the way to handle them.

At no point did I ever, anywhere, say that white people should be prosecuted against more. But you know what? If a ton of black people repeatedly get ticketed for going 80mph in a 60 and a ton of white people repeatedly get off with warnings, i don't think the "equal" solution is suddenly letting everyone get away with speeding.

I repeat, FUCK OFF, I DONT GIIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR SHIT.