This is 911, what is your emergency?
Black woman. Going to people’s doors. Talking to them. Typing messages on phone. Please hurry.
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Meanwhile, in open-carry states…
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Sure, earning respect is a fine ambition, but that assumes Ms Bynum was something less than respectable who needs to now earn it from a paranoid constituent.
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Wise. Any drug powerful enough to animate Carson to the point of traipsing would be the kind of stuff that has made some users eat people’s faces.
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Goddamn it I’m tired of Stupid White People tricks.
Get a grip whiteys!
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Nobody’s mentioned the complete ignorance of the woman who does not know Bynum represents her in Congress. But deputy called the woman
She said she asked the deputy to call the woman so she could speak to her, and he got the woman on the phone.
The woman was apologetic and said she called 911 for the safety of her neighborhood, Bynum said. The woman wouldn’t confirm where she lived.
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Whom I can’t identify but I’ve heard represents me in Congress.
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AAAAAAaaaaaerrrrghghghghghgh!
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Don’t y’all know thats we’s gots to keep them scary black folk away from our white women-folk? This is how it all starts, y’all. If’n we don’t do nuthin’ about it, who knows what could happen? < /snark>
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I don’t rule out that it might be more prevalent, but it could also be an example of “frequency illusion”, or “Baader Meinhof Phenomenon”.
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It’s the racist corollary to “If you see something, say something.” To wit: "If you are a scared racist, act like a scared racist."
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We can call these and other similar dastardly incidents "Trump’s Trickle Down."
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True story: my conservative dad and stepmother, who live in Michigan, went through the (minor) hassle of getting licensed for concealed carry because my stepmother shops a lot at the mall. They were afraid there would be another mall shooter and she wouldn’t be able to defend herself.
Yes, they watch a lot of Fox News. Why do you ask?
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More reporting.
Until cell phone videos, this stuff was dismissed as either fabrication or “there must be more to that story; what else was she doing”. Now white people are finally starting to realize, Oh wow that really does happen. Result is that mainstream news reporters are finally starting to report it.
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Which turned out to be mass hysteria. Are you saying these acts of racism never happened?
More reporting. And it’s the kind of thing that’s a story because it was a story somewhere else. It’s the good kind of snowball effect.
As others pointed out, ubiquitous phone cameras (and cop car cameras etc.) make this potentially more visible. But those things have been around longer than the rash of recent reporting on these incidents.
Seeing innocent people legitimately pursuing everyday activities and having nervous white people stupidly call the cops, and the story being how wrong the white person was, may not be as effective at normalizing integration as, say, going to school together or having black teachers and doctors and coworkers, but if this repeated coverage makes one white person pause before hitting 911, and then another, it’s going to have a positive effect at race relations. Basically the “news” is that black people have the right to public spaces and public activities that white people do.
Representative Bynum handled this perfectly. She didn’t go all Victim! Victim! Victim! Fox News-style; instead she treated the caller with respect, and dare I say it, civility. And did what she was there to do - talk with her constituents.
(I’m not saying random black people have any obligation not to be publicly rude over this kind of thing, but as an elected official dealing with a constituent, that’s part of her job.)
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The NYTimes and major media outlets condemn people for speaking critical to power, and demand that those who dare criticize a proto-fascist state do so civilly. We are told that speaking against those who abuse law enforcement and call 911 for non-white people doing things white people think only they should be allowed to do. They are literally putting peoples lives in jeopardy in doing so, and the callers must know that this is so. We are told that interrupting a WH employees dinner/supper is beyond the pale, why that same employee is part of one of the most dangerous Administrations ever. Some of these employees are notorious for spewing racists vitriol over official WH social media accounts, making speeches filled with inflammatory, and false, rhetoric. Yet nobody ever asks these persons to be civil. What about Tucker (the fucker) Carlson, who the other day, when his usual Tucker tactics where unable to get a rise out of a Black university professor (and who artfully disesembled Carters arguments like he was carving up a chicken), resorted to saying "You know, it is really hard for me to talk to somebody who is so stupid: (paraphrasing a bit). Civility is what those in power expect from those they have power over. “Be nice and smile in your servitude, we could make it worse”. MLK did not believe in civility, although he did advocate for non-violent protest, to an extent. He said that protest could only be successful if it made people uncomfortable.
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12 year old mowing a lawn …
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Actually this was the MO for a theft ring or two that was hitting our neighborhood pretty hard ten or twelve years ago. They even kicked in front doors mid-day on occasion, which is probably why last week my neighbor ran across the street and yelled to see if anyone was home (car was gone, and I was inside painting, lol). Talking up a new church that was starting up was one of their tricks to find out who wouldn’t be home on Sunday mornings. Using the same people to do magazine sales, churchy pitches, and lawn-care proposals is how one outfit got busted.
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liked x infinity.
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And ummm, let’s not forget another neighborhood watchperson that called the police on someone walking in the neighborhood.
I guess we should be happy this woman didn’t stalk Bynum. And that Bynum wasn’t wearing a hoodie and holding Skittles.
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