Eegore wrote on 06/04/21 at 09:48:58:"I have a strong feeling that he wouldn't have harassed me of I was of a lighter complexion,"
I'm sure someone out there has a strong feeling that he's wrong. See how easy that is.
Have a white guy walk through some inner city LA neighborhoods and tell me he won't be violently confronted. Just another day in America.
Well, I can't speak for LA, but I have firsthand experience here in Chicago in the near west side. I’ve been there many times recently and I wasn't violently confronted. I wasn't harassed. I felt I was being looked at differently, but that's just me.
I know a couple of drivers who are in Englewood during the week and are just as white as I am, yet they've never been harassed or asked to show ID.
Does it happen on both sides? Of course. But the reasons are completely different. Guys like one in the video feel threatened by someone's skin color, that's it. Classic racism. People of color in poor neighborhoods, aren't threatened by race, they're pi$$ed off and frustrated. Some of them feel that violence is the only answer.
There's no justification for either side, but it's important to know and differentiate the reasons.