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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
So how do you guys feel everyday? You guys hateful? Gloomy? Paranoid?
I am really trying to be a happy person. And I am mostly successful at it. Although I know the truths - I try not to let that cloud constantly hang over me. But maybe that is what being black is.
It really hit me hard last year. I had a moment when I was so frustrated I broke down for a couple of minutes. I had dealt with racism in the south growing up and moved west to "escape" it but it was still at every job I took. I've been profiled in California more than I have anywhere else. There's no escaping it.
Besides my run-ins with the law out here that I've luckily never been arrested for, I've had neighbors hate me for no apparent reason when I used to go out of my way to at least say hello.
At this point I've come to the conclusion that unless you prove otherwise, if you're not one of my people, you're probably at least a person that refuses to acknowledge racism is prevalent in the US. From there you can only prove me slightly correct or all the way correct and I actively avoid situations where I will have to find out. Yesterday a coworker tried to pick my brain about the protests and I told him I don't watch sports and changed the subject. I had a similar situation last week. I just don't see the point in discussing it with people that I'm going to disagree with on this subject. There's nothing more for me to learn from them.
Gonna need a Kaep jersey asap if dude signs with the Als
FDNY make like 120 to 150k to basically sit in a firehouse all day and go out for menial jobs most of the time. That’s a good check. If I wasn’t so afraid of being burned alive or getting lung cancer that one day that I eventually have to run into a burning building, I would of been signed up for that job. Anyways you can’t be serious about racists not signing up to save minorities. Those jobs pay well. They sign up for the paycheck.
So how do you guys feel everyday? You guys hateful? Gloomy? Paranoid?
I am really trying to be a happy person. And I am mostly successful at it. Although I know the truths - I try not to let that cloud constantly hang over me. But maybe that is what being black is.
So how do you guys feel everyday? You guys hateful? Gloomy? Paranoid?
I am really trying to be a happy person. And I am mostly successful at it. Although I know the truths - I try not to let that cloud constantly hang over me. But maybe that is what being black is.
Most of his pep talks were just nonsense.
Plenty of racist cops that have been fired that prove that theory wrong.
Yeah, the joints were just gibberish.Honestly, most pep talks are just a bunch of random words said with high passion
What makes fireman exempt from being racist?cops =/= firemen
Anyways you can’t be serious about racists not signing up to save minorities. Those jobs pay well. They sign up for the paycheck.
What makes fireman exempt from being racist?
Simple bWhat makes fireman exempt from being racist?
I mean like it’s so easy to refute what he is saying yet he still stands on this island alone. I feel bad for you guys in the political thread.Simple b
A no racist would willing do a high paying secure job in fear that they might have to pull a minority out of a fire.
I'm sure every fireman is cool with a large number of black people in their neighborhoods, is pro immigration, wants his child's school to be as integrated as possible, and always votes the civil rights candidate.
if you're really a racist, you're practicing da exercise in self preservation. and da grueling training alone to potentially lose your life for "minorities you despise" is out of da cards...sorry, not happening with firemen, hence their public perception of them hasn't faulted at all since 9/11.
Was his initial reasoning ever accepted by the media/general public?