From: lashlepi@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Phillip Lashley)
Subject: Re: How white America perceives African-Americans??!??
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:22:18 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.

In article <1993Jan9.012900.9212@oracle.us.oracle.com> mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
>Now, I'm sorry if you get offended when I keep a particularly close
>eye on young black males when I walk home at night, but based on my
>personal experience that's who I need to watch out for.
O.K. I'll bite. The main people who i have encontered PROFESSIONAL difficulty in working with: presumably based on their expectations of me as a young BLACK male, have been WHITE. Now, suppose i bias my operating activity by saying cool, i aint working with no white people again. What if i went into every situation with the following mindset: when i walk in tis door, i will meet a moron, who i will first have to convince of my adequacy as an individual (?), then as a professional, and i can expect to have 


a bitch of a time over the next few months.

For me, FUCK that view. i gotta believe that people out there are fundamentally O.K. Which is not to say if i need some thing i aint looking for a brother or sister to supply it first. its just that we have to interact. The question is on what premise do i base these interactions.

im scared, NOTE, NOT SHITLESS, just scared of walking past the white clubs in downtown halifx in the morning. (whenevery thing is over and people are leaving). More fights happen there. i mite lose a limb killing some one (humor, dark). Whie on white violence is the most prevalent thing in this city on weekends. (well of course there are more white people). Yet pass by the black clubs, and note the paddy wagon and the beast patrols circling like hawks, no, vultures, about their prey. 

Why am i typing this speil.?? Perhaps after my first night downtown in many moons, i visited a "white" club with my P, and then, very late in the morning, walked over to where a "black" club was just closing.
OBSERVATIONS: While totally sober, having not had a drink for the night, i observed 2, *2*, police cars around the white club at closing time, and for the next 15 min.  
Act II: the black club.  1/2 hour later the club is closing. Mainly black people are leaving.  I counted 15, *15*, police cars and 2 wagons in the space of 15 min.  The beast boys even parked on both sides of the road. por lo normal, i waved to them as i left. why do they do this? what are they afraid of? 


O.K now. Flame me for being disjointed, and at times without focus.
P.S my P(liming partner - WHITE/NATIVE INDIAN)noticed this too. Hes getting tired of the situation here. Wouldnt you?

Fuk Peace.
JUSTICE.
Phil.


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