[quote]zecarlo wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]zecarlo wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]zecarlo wrote:
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Interesting. Where are these majority of places whites can’t go without being in danger?
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I live in Northern NJ 15 minutes from Newark, Paterson and NYC so I’ll give you a few in my area:
Sections of Paterson , Newark, East Orange, and a lot of Camden. My friend works for a utility company and he has to cut people’s power off in sections of Irvington, East Orange and Newark when they don’t pay. He’s in the area a lot and gets racial slurs and threats thrown at him. It got bad enough to the point where they now need the help of the police to do their job.
I also worked a for a few months as cell tower auditor for T-Mobile and we had sites all over NYC. Instead of on towers, the cell sites are on top of the buildings. There were neighborhoods in the Bronx (near Webster and Jerome Ave), Brooklyn and upper part of Harlem (around 145 and St. Nick) where it wasn’t safe for whites after dark and even sometimes during the day. Both the cops and the thugs see a white guy in these neighborhoods and they immediately think you’re there for drugs. We would schedule audits for site in these areas no later than noon. The earlier, the better.
Obviously every housing project in the 4 boroughs (minus Manhattan) is off limits. Same goes for Paterson , Newark , Irvington, East Orange and Camden. There are other areas in NJ and NYC where whites can’t go, but I’m just listing the ones I’ve seen personally.
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I lived in Newark, not the Ironbound, and I am white. I felt in no more or less danger than a black who lived there felt. Then again, since I lived there, they all probably assumed I was as broke as they were. [/quote]
Interesting.
It would seem perception is relevant.
It also seems that people from Houston agree with each other on the social situation but people from Newark see the world completely differently than the guy down the block.
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It should be noted that here in CT, after the recent tropical storms, power company workers were attacked both physically and verbally by white people, in very nice towns, because it was believed they were taking too long to restore power. Anger is universal. [/quote]
Link?
I would think that at least the local news would have covered it?[/quote]
They did.
Fairfield police posted a message on its Facebook page on Monday that United Illuminating crews are being harassed in town:
�¢??Several UI crews have been forced to stop work and call for police assistance after being harassed and threatened. There are over 100 crews in town working to restore power at this time. Please allow UI crews to do their job and do not interfere so we can ensure full restoration as soon as possible.�¢??
As of 1 p.m., UI reported 2,359 Fairfield customers without power, about 11 percent of its total customer base.
Fairfield police said UI has been forced to hire police to protect the crews.
Last week, UI crews in Bridgeport required police protection after workers reported people were yelling at them. Some of the crews said their trucks were pelted by eggs. On Monday, Bridgeport had 1,089 customers without power, according to UI, about 1.92 percent, down from more than 40,000 outages last week.
This is not the first report of utility workers being harassed in Fairfield in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
A 62-year-old Perry Street man was arrested last Tuesday after police said he threatened an AT&T worker with a shotgun.
That same day, police received a report of an elderly man harassing UI workers on Merwins Lane, but police didn�¢??t locate him.
http://blog.ctnews.com/sandy/2012/11/05/fairfield-cops-ui-workers-being-harassed/
You’re welcome. [/quote]
That sucks and is not right at all.
But yelling at people is not physical harassment…and where does it say the people were white?
You’re welcome.
