Your attitude is schizophrenic. Either you call in suspicious activity to the police and let them sort it out, or you don't call anything in in case your motives aren't pure. Or you figure the odds of cops mistreating suspects is very high and don't call anything in for that reason (this behavior in very poor areas is easy to understand; it's not like police ever put things right enough to make a difference in your life anyway, so why ruin somebody else's day?)
Trust me, if the person across the street is worried about whether she's only worried about a black guy breaking into my house because he's black, my stuff will have already been fenced by the time she makes up her mind to place a call. Both times I've had my purse snatched, it was an occasion where a guy was making me nervous, but I decided to ignore the fear signals my gut was sending me because I thought I was probably just worried about him because he was black. The one minor sexual assault I've experienced in my life, exact same deal. Why do I feel so afraid of that group of black guys? Am I a racist? Well I won't cross the street, by gum, not me. Oh, oops.
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Date: 2009-07-27 03:23 pm (UTC)Trust me, if the person across the street is worried about whether she's only worried about a black guy breaking into my house because he's black, my stuff will have already been fenced by the time she makes up her mind to place a call. Both times I've had my purse snatched, it was an occasion where a guy was making me nervous, but I decided to ignore the fear signals my gut was sending me because I thought I was probably just worried about him because he was black. The one minor sexual assault I've experienced in my life, exact same deal. Why do I feel so afraid of that group of black guys? Am I a racist? Well I won't cross the street, by gum, not me. Oh, oops.