JOGGING WHILE BLACK

[MirahM]

I would have let those fucking crackers arrest me, no way would I have tried wrestling the gun from him.

He was black in southern America. Jogging while black. You're a white middle class guy.

A long time ago Love Child posted a thread about white privilege. At the time I had never heard that expression before but I've paid more attention since then and I see it nearly daily depending on what I'm reading about. There is a tremendous difference between the lives of white Americans as compared to black and brown Americans. There just is. 

I found a thread on FB where a lady addresses #runwithmaud where she applauded people running for 2.23 miles, but she said take it further. Run in neighborhoods that make you uncomfortable, come back and talk about it. Get involved, make purchases from their stores, advocate.

There is another video where a man (white) is brandishing a small axe in front of the cops, and they simply smack his arm with a baton. They don't restrain him, they don't get him on the ground, they do nothing. But so many black men are shot "because I thought he had a weapon"

It is sad and very upsetting.