re: A major impediment to upward mobility for blacks is racist landlords.

There's a lot of shitty white people.

I just have a problem with blaming "societal systems." Either you have racist laws or you have individuals being racist in violation of the law. Why do the race-baiters have a hard time identifying either one? Or are they engaging in a game of collective mind-reading?

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Black people will continue to hold it as long as others keep repeating their acts of humiliation that are eeriely similar to acts from centuries ago.

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WTF are you talking about?

Are you suggesting that the black experience today is in ANY WAY AT ALL comparable to the negro experience of pre-1800's?

Holy blistering frick, Batman!

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There's a lot of shitty white people.

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Amen, and amen.

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I got so frustrated (it was cold and I was drunk as a skunk ) that I turned to a random white guy and asked him "why do your people treat good people like me so poorly, just because of the color of my skin?" He was speechless.

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You know the answer, and it isn't "because we inherently hate you."

I'm not saying it's fair, but let's talk about why that is, if you'd like.

I'm with you until you said "grew out of it."

I've likened our psychological state that of a battered or raped woman.

Are these psychological states something that we just grow out of ? Or are they things that need therapy and healing?

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There's a lot of shitty white people.

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Lot of shitty black people too if one was to judge by prison population.

Sadly, Ive even had a white America cabby in New Orleans tell my buddy and I that we are lucky that he gave us a ride because there isn't a cabby In the city that would pick up.

I've had no problems with black can drivers.

These are just my experiences tho

You mean all the ones with petty minor drug offenses that are systematically imprisoned harder and stiffer than whites?

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It's funny how this study came out because I was literally ABOut to make a thread about how I was fed up with no being able to catch a cab in New Orleans, and how I have to get my white girlfriend to catch a cab for us all the time.

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I remember a show - years ago, 10 12 at least, perhaps even into the 1990s - there was an allegation of racial prejudice among D.C. cab drivers. They took a camera crew and rode with a driver. He was taking calls and was pushing back with the dispatcher, trying to get details on the fare. He picked up a guy at the airport, got him to kind of a sketchy neighborhood - you could see he was hypervigilent. He discussed close calls and actual incidents where he had been robbed and threatened with guns.

A nondescript looking black dude was trying to hail him in kind of a middling neighborhood - he says, "I hope this guy is okay" while scanning all around to make sure the fare wasn't part of a larger group.

The moral of the story? The cab driver was from D.C. and was black. He flat out stated, "I hate driving past a black guy in the cold and rain. If it's a couple or a family, I typically stop, no problem. A single black guy in a suit or otherwise well-dressed is usually no problem. But 1 or more sketchy black dudes, especially at night? I'm sorry, but I have bigger responsibility to go home to my family than to be colorblind."

I couldn't disagree with his practice or his reasoning. There would have been no reason to do so, even if he were white.

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You mean all the ones with petty minor drug offenses that are systematically imprisoned harder and stiffer than whites?

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those numbers are loaded.

Often comparing 1st time white offenders with career criminals.