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In reply to the discussion: In the auto parts store yesterday...white privilege [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)43. Thanks for posting, White people need to hear these stories
My recent awareness raising experience. I've known for a long time that feeling secure around police is a privilege I have. But, in a recent conversation, a woman looked responded in a way that led me to belive that possibility is completely foreign. It really stunned me to see that her fear of police is so deeply and reasonably embedded that she has doubts that it is ever true that police would provide security and protection.
Even more jarring was to remember that I once assumed that my perception was universal.
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Well I'm all for legalization, amnesty for all those rotting in prisons now on pot convictions, and
PatrickforO
Jul 2016
#19
wrong, the man was injured because he kept pulling away from the officers, and he
frankieallen
Jul 2016
#38
There is a report that he matched the description of a suspect in a robbery case
mythology
Jul 2016
#60
It's encouraging to know, that even though I don't understand it now, in several years I might.
egduj
Jul 2016
#36
I know, when you tell a white person who is looking for a job and struggling to pay medical bills
Nye Bevan
Jul 2016
#28
Republicans have abandoned the saying, "An injury to one is an injury to all"....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2016
#21
I learned about white privilege in 1958, when we were stationed in Cherry Point, NC,
mountain grammy
Jul 2016
#51