(September 3, 2018 at 8:31 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 3, 2018 at 7:46 pm)Losty Wrote: Also, Huggy...🙄🙄🙄
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colum...story.html
Quote:White men largely created the myth that black men should be feared, as a means of dehumanizing them and keeping them enslaved. The stereotype has persisted through generations, though the implications today often are more subtle, and in many cases, subconscious.
Questlove, drummer for the Roots and bandleader on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” wrote a few years ago about his encounter with a frightened white woman on an elevator in his upscale New York apartment building. In a polite gesture, he asked what floor she was going to and she froze in silence. All he wanted to do was push the elevator button for her, but she acted as though his intentions were more sinister.
Longtime Congressman Elijah Cummings once said he crosses the street at night in Washington when white women are walking toward him to avoid making them feel uncomfortable.
These are scenarios that many African-American men encounter every day because in society’s eyes, they are assumed to be bad guys. Meanwhile, powerful white men have been shielded even in cases where they are dangerous predators.
Again, a black man putting his arm around a white woman is basically interpreted as sexual assault, If Ariana Grande feels she was groped, let her be the one to say it.
I think that article is 100% correct. But you're applying it to a situation that it is not relevant to.
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