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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2018, 12:55 PM Jun 2018

Racial profiling victims ask lawmakers for hearing on #LivingWhileBlack

Victims of racial profiling incidents are sending a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees to ask for a congressional hearing on the issue #LivingWhileBlack.

Former Obama staffer Darren Martin, who started the viral hashtag #MovingWhileBlack after he was confronted by police officers while moving into an apartment in New York City, has joined together with other black individuals who have had the police called on them while doing innocuous things.

On Monday, Martin and several other racial-profiling victims sent a letter to the House and Senate Judiciary committees requesting a hearing on racial profiling before the August recess.

“These egregious affronts on human rights, eerily reminiscent of some of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history, are the sad reality for Black people in America,” the letter reads. “We would request that this new hearing widen the focus from just the police, as in previous hearings, to addressing prejudice and profiling from public companies to private citizens, as well.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/390562-racial-profiling-victims-ask-lawmakers-for-hearing-on

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Racial profiling victims ask lawmakers for hearing on #LivingWhileBlack (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 OP

We are at a boiling point- I doubt this administration cares tulipsandroses Jun 2018 #1

Unfortunately even remaining calm isn't always enough mythology Jun 2018 #2

tulipsandroses

(5,124 posts)

1. We are at a boiling point- I doubt this administration cares

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 01:45 PM

Jun 2018

I fear that we will see even more deaths stemming from these incidents of folks calling 911 on folks. Black folks have every right to be angry, yet we are expected to remain calm when challenged and disrespected. These situations can escalate and become deadly.

I was just reading the Air B n B's owners comments, she agreed with her neighbor calling the police. She said her renters were not gracious. Since when is not being gracious a reason for calling 911?? - She had no empathy for what happened to her house guests. She said nothing to the fact that she should have notified her nosy as fukk neighbor that she was going away and going to rent her house . Instead, she said, they were not gracious and were strange people, with a strange car in the neighborhood so the neighbor had every right to call 911. Once again appeasing white discomfort, dressing it up as " I am just being a good neighbor" at the expense of putting black lives in danger.

mythology

(9,527 posts)

2. Unfortunately even remaining calm isn't always enough

Reply to tulipsandroses (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 02:13 PM

Jun 2018

Philando Castile was calm, right and then shot dead.

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