Inner city Houston is majority business district. What are you talking about? White people can’t go into inner city Houston?
Since when?
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Went to a training school in Houston where they literally had a deputy (a black man) come in and tell us the areas that we needed to avoid because of our skin color. The aforementioned area of Baton Rouge could be another. Pick an inner city, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Baltimore, do I need to keep going?[/quote]
So because one guy told you something about places not to go based on your skin color (which sounds flat out racist to me in a business setting) you thought this is how Houston was?[/quote]
We are very close and he goes places alone. He has never mentioned anything, but I will ask him this evening.[/quote]
So…you were speaking for him and all black people without actually any knowledge of it?[/quote]
I never said that, but I did say I had never seen it or heard of it from them in the areas you mentioned. Stop putting words in my mouth or starting shit that was never said and is not there.
Also, even if there are the existence of places that black people cant go without being in danger because their race makes them a target, they are extremely small in comparison to the places that white people cant go because their race literally puts a target on their back. If you do not acknowledge that, then you are either being purposely blind or are extremely sheltered.[/quote]
Interesting. Where are these majority of places whites can’t go without being in danger?
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Inner city Houston for one. Went to a training school in Houston where they literally had a deputy (a black man) come in and tell us the areas that we needed to avoid because of our skin color. The aforementioned area of Baton Rouge could be another. Pick an inner city, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Baltimore, do I need to keep going?[/quote]
There are a couple of places in Houston, but it is not that bad. I have stopped in couple of those places to ask for directions. Was I aware of my surroundings yes, but never felt like I was in danger.
Newark, New Jersey is a different story. [/quote]
If MAYBE he had said some project home area, then I might have been able to avoid laughing.
Inner City Houston is a thriving business place. It is about as mixed as you can get and whites don’t seem to be in fear of the place at all.
Sad that people who don’t live here think this bs though.
Inner city Houston is majority business district. What are you talking about? White people can’t go into inner city Houston?
Since when?
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Went to a training school in Houston where they literally had a deputy (a black man) come in and tell us the areas that we needed to avoid because of our skin color. The aforementioned area of Baton Rouge could be another. Pick an inner city, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Baltimore, do I need to keep going?[/quote]
So because one guy told you something about places not to go based on your skin color (which sounds flat out racist to me in a business setting) you thought this is how Houston was?[/quote]
Fine, the ghetto of Houston, I do not know the layout of the city as I have only been there twice. So the black man that said we shouldn’t go there is a racist???[/quote]
I have no doubt that on occasion black people are the victims of idiocy from a minority of whites that is looked down upon by the rest of us, however, the exact same thing can be said for whites sometimes when we find ourselves in the “wrong” places. [/quote]
I am still waiting on these majority of places that whites can’t go. To imply INNER CITY HOUSTON is one of these places has to be a huge joke.[/quote]
You must have missed the rest of the list he put up. Half of Greenwood Mississippi for reference to a non-metropolitan area.
Inner city Houston is majority business district. What are you talking about? White people can’t go into inner city Houston?
Since when?
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Went to a training school in Houston where they literally had a deputy (a black man) come in and tell us the areas that we needed to avoid because of our skin color. The aforementioned area of Baton Rouge could be another. Pick an inner city, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Baltimore, do I need to keep going?[/quote]
So because one guy told you something about places not to go based on your skin color (which sounds flat out racist to me in a business setting) you thought this is how Houston was?[/quote]
Fine, the ghetto of Houston, I do not know the layout of the city as I have only been there twice. So the black man that said we shouldn’t go there is a racist???[/quote]
You don’t even seem to know where in Houston you are talking about.
LOL at “ghetto” of Houston. That may have flown in the 1970’s but I don’t think even 3rd ward qualifies now.
I literally said that I knew very little about Houston. Simply what a black officer told me. That is solely what I had to go on. He said “Post-Katrina Houston had received such an influx of the 9th ward problems that they were having a huge spike in crime and there were areas that we did not need to be, particularly if you were white”. I can respect that maybe things have changed or this was blown out of proportion, but considering you just spewed BS about black people being scared to drive through Mississippi, I have a hard time just taking your word for it. Now, dmaddox, him I’ll believe.
These are not my words you are refuting. They are the words of your fellow Houstonite because as I said numerous times but you chose to ignore, I only have that to go on.
We are very close and he goes places alone. He has never mentioned anything, but I will ask him this evening.[/quote]
So…you were speaking for him and all black people without actually any knowledge of it?[/quote]
Like you do? [/quote]
I don’t have any knowledge of being black?
Who knew?
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I am pretty confident you knew what I meant with that but maybe I need to SPELL IT OUT IN CRAYON(i actually enjoyed that, now I get why you do it)… Just because you are black doesnt mean you get to speak on behalf of an entire race of people using only your opinion, experience and bias as the foundation.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
I literally said that I knew very little about Houston.[/quote]
Yeah, but the question was WHERE ARE ALL OF THESE PLACES THAT WHITES CAN’T GO THAT OUTNUMBER PLACES THAT BLACKS CAN’T GO.
Your very first pick was flat out so wrong it was funny.
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Simply what a black officer told me. That is solely what I had to go on.[/quote]
It bothers me that choices that crucial are being made because one guy said something to you.
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He said “Post-Katrina Houston had received such an influx of the 9th ward problems that they were having a huge spike in crime and there were areas that we did not need to be, particularly if you were white”.[/quote]
That only makes me question both his and your mentalities…nothing more.
We are very close and he goes places alone. He has never mentioned anything, but I will ask him this evening.[/quote]
So…you were speaking for him and all black people without actually any knowledge of it?[/quote]
Like you do? [/quote]
I don’t have any knowledge of being black?
Who knew?
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I am pretty confident you knew what I meant with that but maybe I need to SPELL IT OUT IN CRAYON(i actually enjoyed that, now I get why you do it)… Just because you are black doesnt mean you get to speak on behalf of an entire race of people using only your opinion, experience and bias as the foundation. [/quote]
I wasn’t aware I was speaking for an entire race of people.
I simply spoke on the FACT that sagging pants do not mean any criminal activity is going on…which means calling them thugs based on that makes no sense.
Being from that culture where I see it being accepted, I can speak on that.
Well lets put it like this, Dmaddox listed Newark, New Jersey. I have the “wrong neighborhood” in Baton Rouge, where the man, his wife and 14 year old were beaten at a gas station strictly for being white, there are two. That is two more places than you have that black people cannot go. You haven’t actually named a place yet that is dangerous for a black person to go because they are black.
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I literally said that I knew very little about Houston.[/quote]
Yeah, but the question was WHERE ARE ALL OF THESE PLACES THAT WHITES CAN’T GO THAT OUTNUMBER PLACES THAT BLACKS CAN’T GO.
Your very first pick was flat out so wrong it was funny.
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Simply what a black officer told me. That is solely what I had to go on.[/quote]
It bothers me that choices that crucial are being made because one guy said something to you.
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He said “Post-Katrina Houston had received such an influx of the 9th ward problems that they were having a huge spike in crime and there were areas that we did not need to be, particularly if you were white”.[/quote]
That only makes me question both his and your mentalities…nothing more.[/quote]
And wouldn’t something be more wrong with my mentality if I didn’t believe the law enforcement officer that was from Houston about what a part of Houston was like, when I knew nothing about Houston?