Late Night Video — Am I Suspicious?

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1. AGovernor says:

   July 19, 2013 at 9:17 am

   You know Cassandra it all depends. If I saw one of them, today in this heat, with a black hooded sweatshirt and the hood over his head, yeah, I would say he looked suspicious.

2. V says:

   July 19, 2013 at 11:50 am

   between this and the Med school picture that’s circulating Howard is really bringing it on this issue. Awesome.

3. Dana says:

   July 20, 2013 at 3:08 pm

   The Reverend Jesse L Jackson said:

   There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved…. After all we have been through. Just to think we can’t walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

   What was the Reverend Jackson saying? He was admitting that he “profiled” pedestrians, and thought himself safer when the passersby were white instead of black. You might ask why that was the case.

   There is another sort of profiling going on, all the time. Many of the readers of this fine site are within the distribution area of The Philadelphia Inquirer. When a black man is killed by another black man, or in a situation where the victim is just as much of a thug as whomever killed him, he barely merits an “in Other News” mention. It’s only if the victim is not a thug that the Inquirer takes significant notice, and if the victim is a pretty white woman, good Lord, it’s headline news for days, even if said pretty white woman is herself just another criminal; think Rian Thal here.

   Why? Because black thugs killing other black thugs is simply not news anymore. In the time since Trayvon Martin went to his eternal reward, over 200 young black men were murdered in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia, almost all of whom were shot by other young black men; can you name even one of them without having to look it up first?

4. geezer says:

   July 20, 2013 at 3:11 pm

   Dana: So what? Blacks killing other blacks means blacks shouldn’t get upset when whites kill blacks? That would mean whites shouldn’t get upset about black-on-white crime because whites kill other whites.

   The fact that you don’t understand how the media work means nothing beyond the fact that you’re ignorant, specifically of how the media works. Trayvon Martin’s killing didn’t make the national news for weeks, until Sanford residents started complaining as part of a years-long dispute about the town’s police department and its treatment of minorities. You could look it up, but it’s so much easier to take a wingnut web site’s word for it.

   I know you think you have critical thinking skills, but everything you type shows how sadly mistaken you are.

5. Dana says:

   July 20, 2013 at 3:34 pm

   What it means, Mr Geezer, is that y’all are doing your mightiest to find a racial angle to exploit for some political goal or other, far more than you are concerned that someone has been killed. If George Zimmerman had been black, we would not have had Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and the race hustlers incensed about this case, there’d have been no news outside of the local area, and no trial. The judgement of the local officials would have been regarded as proper.

6. geezer says:

   July 20, 2013 at 4:03 pm

   No, Dana, you’re projecting again. The issue about this story going national wasn’t the tragedy of a young man gunned down — it was the institutional racism of the Sanford PD, an allegation that had been simmering for some time now, many months if not years. If you weren’t the lazy conservative you are, you would look up the coverage of the case and see how it spread from central Fla. to the rest of the state through the state’s media, and how the national media picked it up from there.

   So let me get this straight — your complaint is that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson make their living pointing out institutional racism (and, as in the Tawana Brawley case, being incredibly gullible and wrong about it.) Really? You really want to open up the can of worms that is the number of conservatives bilking each other out of donations by misrepresenting reality? Because you’ve got a lot more than two scumbags on your side of the fence, buddy boy.

   And yes, I’m more upset by institutional racism than by one person getting killed. And you aren’t upset at all — they are statistics to me, just as they are to you. The difference is you want to feel sorry and just move on. I want to see something good come out of this, though I doubt it will. Hell, look at the conservative freakout over the president pointing out that every black man in America has experienced the kinds of small things he mentioned. Haven’t heard a single conservative yet lament that state of affairs. In fact, most of them justify it by quoting Jesse Jackson.

   Y’all have such an enormous white guilt complex — deservedly so, by the way — that you can’t even see your conservatism for what it is, a pathetic attempt to justify the privileges you enjoy just because you weren’t born black.

7. AGovenor says:

   July 20, 2013 at 11:42 pm

   It isn’t just whether you are wearing a hoodie. I wear a hoodie, it is the ATTITUDE that goes along with that hoodie before I consider you suspicious.

8. cassandra_m says:

   July 21, 2013 at 9:50 am

   Really? This is what you said first:
   If I saw one of them, today in this heat, with a black hooded sweatshirt and the hood over his head, yeah, I would say he looked suspicious.

   Sometimes hoods are up to block the sun. Not exactly what I’d do, but hey.

9. cassandra_m says:

   July 21, 2013 at 9:54 am

   I think that this is the Howard University picture that V is talking about above.