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Am I Being an Asshole? Racist? (The guy was black)

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GinormousNG said:
So I was thinking that when I pick up my car, I was going to tell him that we got an alarm system because of how he made me feel uneasy with the reasons above. Am I being racist, an asshole, and is it okay for me to tell him this?
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AWKWARD! haha! If you decide to do this anyway, record a video of the encounter and his response and give us a link to it. You're still in the running for biggest dweeb of the year, thread backfire or something.
 
GinormousNG said:
It's not that he was black. Why is everyone so focused on color? What made me feel uncomfortable was not the color of his skin, but that he was making conversation with a criminal.
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Haley Joel Osment was arrested for a DUI, if he had been talking to him would you have been uncomfortable? I mean Haley's a criminal because of his DUI, so it's the same thing! What about Tim Allen? He has a DUI, I'm sure you would have pondered rushing out to get get an alarm system if the guy in your car had stopped to talk to either right?
 
GinormousNG said:
I needed to drop my car off at the mechanic but I had no one to take me home, so the owner of the shop had one of his employees ride with me home to take my car back to the shop. While we were riding home, he opened my window to wave at one of his friends in an orange jumpsuit. They had a conversation about why he was cleaning up the city, basically he had a DWI. After that, he asked me about cops in my neighborhood because I was speeding. Basically he made me feel uncomfortable.

So I was thinking that when I pick up my car, I was going to tell him that we got an alarm system because of how he made me feel uneasy with the reasons above. Am I being racist, an asshole, and is it okay for me to tell him this?
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No, you should not tell the guy this. You are simply scared of black people. Someone who got a DWI isn't a criminal.

Just admit it to yourself.
 
QueBert said:
Haley Joel Osment was arrested for a DUI, if he had been talking to him would you have been uncomfortable? I mean Haley's a criminal because of his DUI, so it's the same thing! What about Tim Allen? He has a DUI, I'm sure you would have pondered rushing out to get get an alarm system if the guy in your car had stopped to talk to either right?
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Dude , Tim Allen spent 5 years in prison for trafficking in cocaine. If you saw him on the street, you surely would need a moat around your house, let alone an alarm system. And if he was talkin to one of the brothas, holy shit, I dont know what the hell I would do. Maybe go home and dig a reaaaaaallly deep hole in my back yard and hide for at least a month. And he's not even black!


Peace


Lounatik
 
Lounatik said:
Dude , Tim Allen spent 5 years in prison for trafficking in cocaine. If you saw him on the street, you surely would need a moat around your house, let alone an alarm system. And if he was talkin to one of the brothas, holy shit, I dont know what the hell I would do. Maybe go home and dig a reaaaaaallly deep hole in my back yard and hide for at least a month. And he's not even black!


Peace


Lounatik
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I didn't know what you guys were talking about until I googled it. I would definitely be scared of Tim Allen during his drug dealing days. If he has financial troubles now, I wouldn't even trust him to drive my car if he worked at the mechanic shop. Your response to what you'd do was funny though. Heh
 
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GinormousNG said:
I needed to drop my car off at the mechanic but I had no one to take me home, so the owner of the shop had one of his employees ride with me home to take my car back to the shop.

no. The insurance implications would mean trouble for the owner. Maybe he would let someone drop you off, never ride with you.

While we were riding home, he opened my window to wave at one of his friends in an orange jumpsuit. They had a conversation about why he was cleaning up the city, basically he had a DWI.

no. If he was in an orange jumpsuit, he would be an inmate and not doing community service. This is your big lie. Please tell me what county you are in. Most counties don't use orange and I bet yours doesn't either.

After that, he asked me about cops in my neighborhood because I was speeding. Basically he made me feel uncomfortable.

So I was thinking that when I pick up my car, I was going to tell him that we got an alarm system because of how he made me feel uneasy with the reasons above. Am I being racist, an asshole, and is it okay for me to tell him this?
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lies
 
GinormousNG said:
I didn't know what you guys were talking about until I googled it. I would definitely be scared of Tim Allen during his drug dealing days. If he has financial troubles now, I wouldn't even trust him to drive my car if he worked at the mechanic shop. Your response to what you'd do was funny though. Heh
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Wait, so the black guy with the job is poor now? You were frightened of him because he's black and poor, and has black poor criminal friends?

OP watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeK759FF84s, realize your parents made you racist, and stop it.

I'll admit that when I lived a sheltered life in the middle of nowhere never being exposed to anyone who wasn't a middle class white person, I had lots of racist tendencies put into my head by EVERYONE else who was in the same environment as me. Then I got a job a where I worked exclusively with blacks (african americans, jamaicans, etc.), latinos from everywhere, and asians of all different varieties. The thing I learned is that they are all members of the human race and skin color has nothing to do with anything.

My job made that video part of a required training and it along with a few years surrounded by people different than me changed my entire life. Give it a shot, not being a racist is a lot of fun.
 
just wondering..what if he lived in a "high crime" area that usually involved black people. Would that make him racist? A lot of people do racial profiling especially cops in a lot of areas.
 
GinormousNG said:
It's not that he was black. Why is everyone so focused on color? What made me feel uncomfortable was not the color of his skin, but that he was making conversation with a criminal.
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hate to break it to you, but many lower tier serviceman etc. are criminals. Chances are, the dude serving you fries and a burger at your fast food restaurant has some type of record.

What's nice though, is that a lot of criminals are real easy to talk with and get a long with, they just make stupid decisions and hang with the wrong crowd.
 
mizzou said:
hate to break it to you, but many lower tier serviceman etc. are criminals. Chances are, the dude serving you fries and a burger at your fast food restaurant has some type of record.

What's nice though, is that a lot of criminals are real easy to talk with and get a long with, they just make stupid decisions and hang with the wrong crowd.
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Lower tier? Hell, quite a few of the higher ups are criminals as well, they can just afford proper legal counsel to not get it on their records.
 
The issue was the man stopping to talk to a criminal in an orange jumpsuit. Looks clear that color of skin did not drive judgement, what drove judgments was perceived characters of the men involved. Honestly, I find that completely understandable and warranted even though I may disagree with the severity leveled against the crime of the criminal involved. But perhaps some people find a stranger they are driving with who stops to talk to someone in an orange jumpsuit unsettling,..*gasp*, come on, that's completely normal.

If you read the OP it's pretty clear that were everything else the same but the color of skin, that the outcome would be the same. OP still distrustful of the man (regardless of color of skin) due to the encounter and discourse of the man with a criminal.

DWI, DUI, doesn't really matter, it was the exchange here that sent alarms to the OP. It wasn't the color of skin. Notice how the concern came after the encounter, obviously, not before.

You judge a man by the content of his character. I can see concerns about OP being too hard on his perception from the exchange given the nature of the crime of a one party involved, but that's where the judgement came from (the exchange), not from skin color.


Don't want to be associated with criminals and criminal behavior?, don't stop to talk with ones in orange jumpsuits on the side of the road. This works for all skin colors btw.
 
The issue was the man stopping to talk to a criminal in an orange jumpsuit. Looks clear that color of skin did not drive judgement, what drove judgments was perceived characters of the men involved. Honestly, I find that completely understandable and warranted even though I may disagree with the severity leveled against the crime of the criminal involved. But perhaps some people find a stranger they are driving with who stops to talk to someone in an orange jumpsuit unsettling,..*gasp*, come on, that's completely normal.

If you read the OP it's pretty clear that were everything else the same but the color of skin, that the outcome would be the same. OP still distrustful of the man (regardless of color of skin) due to the encounter and discourse of the man with a criminal.

DWI, DUI, doesn't really matter, it was the exchange here that sent alarms to the OP. It wasn't the color of skin. Notice how the concern came after the encounter, obviously, not before.

You judge a man by the content of his character. I can see concerns about OP being too hard on his perception from the exchange given the nature of the crime of a one party involved, but that's where the judgement came from (the exchange), not from skin color.


Don't want to be associated with criminals and criminal behavior?, don't stop to talk with ones in orange jumpsuits on the side of the road. This works for all skin colors btw.
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+1

I think the OP received negative responses bc he was so quick to point out, in his title no less, the color of the man. If only he had omitted that detail he could've avoided the thread backfire. However, due to the title of the thread, which was one about racism, the race of said man was very necessary.

Plus, we got to read all the hilarious comments. I think this thread's a winner.
 
Dick Duck Dong said:
+1

I think the OP received negative responses bc he was so quick to point out, in his title no less, the color of the man. If only he had omitted that detail he could've avoided the thread backfire. However, due to the title of the thread, which was one about racism, the race of said man was very necessary.

Plus, we got to read all the hilarious comments. I think this thread's a winner.
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this guy is not to be trusted. I saw Dick Duck Dong wearing a orange jumpsuit next to OP once. He's the main cause of why OP is the way is.:colbert:
 
I can relate to OP's post. See I live near the dumps of Prairieville and commute through bus to work everyday. Usually when I walk to the bus-stop its usually a cakewalk. Though not this time. See through time there has been numerous accounts where "african americans have been portrayed as criminals" News,movies, word of mouth, etc. Automatically that tends to put a toll on how you portray society. So I am walking towards the bus-stop and this dark man is walking towards me, so I try to steer away. He eventually catches up to me saying "hey", to catch my attention. So I stop and turn and automatically tell him to step away or I'll call the cops. He gave me a confused look and say "look no harm" I just wanted to see what time the bus comes. Am I racist for automatically putting him in that category?

btw he was wearing khakis pants and a nice polo shirt, but still. I was scared.

grammar sucks:too lazy
 
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wow OP, so a black dude that gets a DWI and serving his parole and another that wondered how speeding was enforced have you strapping up to protect yourself.

You need to check yourself...
 
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