indiucky
Grandmaster
Of course not, but that's doesn't mean that the situation now is worthy of protest. I can only go by my own personal experiences, and what I see. I've stopped for nothing, followed in stores, had a dog walked through (not around through) my parents car without consent, been straight up called a checkbox, had our PD cleaners decline to wash my clothes because he didn't believe I was an officer, asked countless times if I was selling drugs, had my own PD called in on me as I walked through my neighborhood, had a woman say verbatim "take your hands off me ******, I'm a white woman," asked "can you afford this" in a store and a litany of other things that make me go WTF? I'm a college educated, gainfully employed, multi-lingual, law-abiding (and enforcing), never used a drug, clean cut, articulate, well read, own car/own home having, Southern (yes sir/yes ma'am), please and thank you black guy. And from my friends that are of a similar description, my complaints aren't uncommon.
Nah....Never happens.... I loved "Funny Vibe" by Living Colour....I remember when this song came out white folk around the country said "I don't do that and never would" and I remember thinking, "Hell these fellas didn't pull these lyrics out of their behinds.." A good song and you should be old enough to remember it....We had two black guys at my school and I was buddies with both of them...I remember me and Terry would go fishing a bit and the looks he and I would get when we would go into a rural bait shop was kind of uncomfortable....I swear I almost expected a couple of older guys to pull me aside and explain to me "the rules"....And that was in the late 1970's, early '80's....
Dad's old rabbit hunting buddy he worked with had an old family farm down in rural Kentucky. Starting about November Dad and his two cousins, along with Joe and his two nephews (there was about 6-8 of them that would go and the hunting party was usually 50/50 race split....) would road trip down and hunt the weekend... He said they often got funny looks, so much so they finally just started getting their BBQ to go and eating back at the little motel they stayed at...
The beagles were color blind...At the end of the day they'd hop in bed with a member of either race...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2Kg****fI
Every Thanksgiving KET plays this documentary....It's kind of become a tradition for us...Dad says the big guy reminds him of Joe...If you ever get a chance to watch this it's one of the best little films, on men, dogs, and friendship I have ever seen...
[video=youtube;bglofxs0MvQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglofxs0MvQ[/video]
The book is good as well...The son in law is a writer for the Washington Post and the book is one of the few books that George W. Bush ever wrote an endorsement for....The writer covered George Bush Senior and remains a family friend...
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