See, my response to that issue is that I think it complete and utter BS. Especially living here, you drive to the ghetto (and we REALLY have multiple ghettos and the REALLY poor ones are places I wouldn't drive in if I had to -- and I know the poorer neighborhoods of SF and the Bay Area and I feel comfortable in most of those, except for an abiding dislike of some of the druggie rich white kids of the Haight/ telegraph) and there is NO WAY IN HELL of getting out of a Black in Alabama ghetto without serious effort and a great deal of luck.
The colorline is a big, awful divide. I grew up poor. But I'm white, I have white privilege. No one looks at me and immediately thinks my parents couldn't afford rent every month. They don't follow me around the store, thinking I'm a shoplifter (or look at me like I might have a gun in my purse). No cop would just shoot me out of the blue b/c I'm sleeping in my car (that event happened in Riverside, CA, actually, about 12 blocks from where I lived when I went to UCR).
Being Black in America is a crime. And that is wrong. I do not have patience for White people who don't get that. Which is why I mostly stay away from those types of posts...
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Date: 2008-10-06 07:59 pm (UTC)The colorline is a big, awful divide. I grew up poor. But I'm white, I have white privilege. No one looks at me and immediately thinks my parents couldn't afford rent every month. They don't follow me around the store, thinking I'm a shoplifter (or look at me like I might have a gun in my purse). No cop would just shoot me out of the blue b/c I'm sleeping in my car (that event happened in Riverside, CA, actually, about 12 blocks from where I lived when I went to UCR).
Being Black in America is a crime. And that is wrong. I do not have patience for White people who don't get that. Which is why I mostly stay away from those types of posts...