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Watching this video actually made me emotional. I have personally experienced this. I’ve never had anyone come to my rescue. For those that haven’t experienced it, I really can not convey how horribly it feels to be seen and treated as a criminal for simply being black.

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” ~Martin Luther King Jr

OMG that white guy.  “Probably played the black card, right?”

You know, I had just worked up the wherewithal to be on tumblr today. Now I’m crying, and I have to leave again.

People in the video just watched. They stood there, and they watched. And said nothing.

I found myself crying after just a few minutes, because other than getting the side-eye, and being followed around and watched like a hawk, I’ve never had something like this happen to me. I don’t know what I’d do if it did, and if no one spoke up.

I can’t even finish my thoughts, maybe I’ll post something about it later, but more likely, I’ll just finish crying and go to bed for the rest of the day.

That man. That man.

Don’t ever tell me this shit isn’t real, that people aren’t racist, that people don’t look at me and expect me to do something or say something “wrong” or “Black”. Fuck that.

And I don’t care that it was an experiment. Those people’s reactions were fucking real.

Isolated incident? No.

Every. Fucking. Day.

I have to be conscious of the way I dress… 

Truth. 

Things like this also remind me why I side-eye white people who watch videos like this and then jump in to be like, ‘I totally would have said something! I can’t stand racism!’ — usually right after they mention that they have never been in a situation like this before and whatnot. Yeah, you say that now, and maybe a few people would do it, but this and POC’s experiences say most wouldn’t do shit except cry about how awful it was afterwards.

can we analyze the behavior of the third woman with dark hair. She did nothing while it happened and when the sales person talked to her about it she did everything she could to not hear that the woman was singled out for her race. When she did she just cried because god forbid racism in this country would still exist and happen in her face. Aversive racism is a hell of a drug.

 Sadly, this is true. I started tearing up when he said “she probably just played the black card.” That has happened to me. People are upset with YOU for playing the “Black card” just to make it so they can ignore that there is obviously racism going on, and this helps them shrug it off.

I have been to a store, where a young clerk said while I was checking the price tags “You probably can’t afford that.” and rolled her eyes.  It was damn expensive, for just cheaply made clothes, but I COULD afford it.

as I left the store she asked with a smirk on her face “so you’re not going to buy anything?” and I just replied; “No, I’d prefer not to shop here.”

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