Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code"

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Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - graylocks - 03-24-2012

add to the Code not to walk through a store with your hands in your sweatshirt or jacket pockets. it's what i've told my son. it's what i've remembered to do in the north or south for the last 5 decades as an african american female.

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - Dennis S - 03-24-2012

Ted King wrote:
[quote=billb]
[quote=rjmacs]
[quote=Chakravartin]
Take out "black male" and substitute the words "hippie, hipster, teenage boy, K-Mart Shopper, person with backpack, ginger, anyone who walks in this neighborhood..."

People are xenophobic.

"Not from around here" and "not like me" are convenient excuse for murder in many places... and sometimes legal excuses.

Both of these are true, but it's a mistake to overlook that violence based on race has a particular and peculiar place in our history and society. It's simply not true that over the course of American history, 'hippies, hipsters, teenage boys, K-Mart Shoppers, people with backpacks, or gingers' have been targeted in ways that begin to compare with racially-motivated violence.

and some people need to hate so badly that they can find racism in an empty glass of water.
Do you think people finding racism "in an empty glass of water" is as big a problem as violence against someone based on their race? Or do you think there isn't any racially-motivated violence? I don't understand why you made that comment. Is it just that you feel that you need to add an obligatory "some people find racism in an empty glass of water" comment to any thread that talks about racism?
billb just tipped his hand.

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - $tevie - 03-24-2012

I read that article earlier today. I posted a story from npr with a similar theme on the other side a few days ago. I wouldn't be so arrogant as to attempt to argue with someone's life experiences. I guess I'm just a sucker for empirical knowledge.

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - Dennis S - 03-24-2012

samintx wrote:
The strange thing is Zimmerman is hispanic...anyway half...white half hispanic. More a nervous trigger finger.

You have got to be kidding.

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - PeterB - 03-24-2012

olnacl wrote:
Don't forget to add "Democrat" to the list. Sad to say, my Obama sticker does not grace my bumper or rear window for fear of getting the car keyed here in the south.

And it's not just Democrat, either. I've avoided adding my FSM sticker to my car for the same reason.

I don't think any of us can really know what it is to be DWB (or WWB, in this case), without actually being black.

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - Black - 03-24-2012

$tevie wrote:
I posted a story from npr with a similar theme on the other side a few days ago.

Repost police!!!

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - hal - 03-24-2012

PeterB wrote:
[quote=olnacl]
Don't forget to add "Democrat" to the list. Sad to say, my Obama sticker does not grace my bumper or rear window for fear of getting the car keyed here in the south.

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - JoeH - 03-24-2012

FSM - Flying Spaghetti Monster
DWB - Driving While Black
WWB - Walking... you get the idea

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - Chakravartin - 03-24-2012

JoeH wrote:
FSM - Flying Spaghetti Monster
DWB - Driving While ~~Black~~ Bearded
WWB - Walking... you get the idea

I was pulled over in North Carolina because the sheriff didn't like my beard.

I've often wondered whether he'd have preferred a goatee or soul-patch. 'Never got the chance to ask him.

Re: Heartbreaking article, "Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code" - Black - 03-25-2012

Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=JoeH]
FSM - Flying Spaghetti Monster
DWB - Driving While ~~Black~~ Bearded
WWB - Walking... you get the idea

I was pulled over in North Carolina because the sheriff didn't like my beard.

I've often wondered whether he'd have preferred a goatee or soul-patch. 'Never got the chance to ask him.
I hope you're not suggesting that being pulled over or treated with suspicion or falsely accused due to (x)WB is not a real phenomenon(?)