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Meriadoc  ·  3149 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Police to pull over teens for good driving | News - Home

I'm a white dude, but I've gotten so fucking good at "whiting it up" around cops. It's just... fucking disgusting how easy it is to get away with shit as a white guy. If I just put a certain affectation to my voice, it's like I can instantly hypnotize them. And then of course I'd be out with friends in my home town suburb as a teenager, high as fuck, decked out in my angsty goth clothes, and they'd pat me on the back before they do a full body search with backup cops for the goody two shoes military friend of mine because he's black, all within three minutes.

And then people just... don't see the connection between race and police interactions?