Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son’s bicycle helmet

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    9 months ago

    Dude is literally the same color as I am, a light-skinned Black person, going by the picture, and yes, I’ve had clerks follow me in stores and white women clutch their purses when I pass, and every man in my family, all of whom are that color, have a “being pulled over by the cops” story, so I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to do here.

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        9 months ago

        Please try to be a serious person.

        I never once claimed to be a “victim,” so don’t put words in my mouth. But racism is real and it happens, no matter how much some folks really want to pretend it’s just folks looking to be “victims.”

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        9 months ago

        Man shut the fuck up. Just because the USA was able to pretend we thought people who looked like that were white to steal physicists from Iran for a little bit, doesn’t mean he is white passing. Also notice the guy’s hairline is clearly that of a dad, why would you card him. Fuck off idiot

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        9 months ago

        As an old white lady myself I’m disappointed in you, trying to find any tiny excuse to deny the racism that’s all around you in our world.