This weighing heavily on me.
I am among the first to defend profiling as something we do as we go about our day. All kinds of profiling. I DON'T LIKE that young kid who was stealing the cigars. I am open to believing he had a hand in his own demise. I was pretty much radicalized by the GZ/TM case because of the patent bs that surrounded it and because the prosecutor and judge seemed to be complete nutcases.
But it's hard to miss how apt those three words are for being young and black out in public. If I had an unwanted suitor showing up everywhere I went or scrutinizing everything I did or a micromanager scrutinizing everything I did and jumping on it, especially while overlooking the same things in my colleagues, I would say I was being suffocated or can barely breathe or something like that.
I think young black males are more likely statistically to do certain bad illegal things than are middle aged white or Asian women. WHY, though, was one of the people shot recently while being arrested -- or killed some other way in custody -- apprehended AT ALL over MARIJUANA?? she was female too
Why are these kids so relentlessly surveilled over this stuff when white folks are so much more free to do drugs?
Sort of a rhetorical question, but when I think seriously all I can come up with is conspiracy thinking.
Sucks to have a stalker or suffocating parents or teachers or bosses that want to suck you into a big machine that will collapse under its own weight if even a quarter of the enmeshed people resist pressure to "plead out" of their circum,stances.
Probably someone else somewhere has written about "I can't breathe" having this meaning.
Bleak December. Bleak world.
Thanks for letting me think out loud in this grubby internet hovel for a minute. Sometimes you just have to say things to other people.
I am among the first to defend profiling as something we do as we go about our day. All kinds of profiling. I DON'T LIKE that young kid who was stealing the cigars. I am open to believing he had a hand in his own demise. I was pretty much radicalized by the GZ/TM case because of the patent bs that surrounded it and because the prosecutor and judge seemed to be complete nutcases.
But it's hard to miss how apt those three words are for being young and black out in public. If I had an unwanted suitor showing up everywhere I went or scrutinizing everything I did or a micromanager scrutinizing everything I did and jumping on it, especially while overlooking the same things in my colleagues, I would say I was being suffocated or can barely breathe or something like that.
I think young black males are more likely statistically to do certain bad illegal things than are middle aged white or Asian women. WHY, though, was one of the people shot recently while being arrested -- or killed some other way in custody -- apprehended AT ALL over MARIJUANA?? she was female too
Why are these kids so relentlessly surveilled over this stuff when white folks are so much more free to do drugs?
Sort of a rhetorical question, but when I think seriously all I can come up with is conspiracy thinking.
Sucks to have a stalker or suffocating parents or teachers or bosses that want to suck you into a big machine that will collapse under its own weight if even a quarter of the enmeshed people resist pressure to "plead out" of their circum,stances.
Probably someone else somewhere has written about "I can't breathe" having this meaning.
Bleak December. Bleak world.
Thanks for letting me think out loud in this grubby internet hovel for a minute. Sometimes you just have to say things to other people.
I Can't Breathe
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