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When someone says that they are suspicious of the person because they're black, they're making it pretty clear why they're calling. That's a real call, by the way. Police officers will even tell you that they get tired of taking suspicious person calls that are made against black people for no reason. It's a waste of their time. The sheriff's department I worked for was certainly sick of it. Apparently, my former employer isn't the only LE agency that has experienced this.

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/5/...bq-oakland

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk...ac80eeec86

Yes, this happens sometimes, but its silly to pretend this only happens to blacks. I had three cop cars surround me in the Walmart parking lot while I was sitting in a Lexus. All because I was playing on my phone while eating dinner. Nosey people calling the cops isn't unique to black people, nor is it clear how much higher of a rate blacks are the subject of such calls.

Are you comparing being barred from a country to forcibly taking people to another land, keeping them against their will, and affording them lower levels of rights than even immigrants had? Are you really comparing beatings, church bombings, and lynchings to not allowing people to come to a country? Are you talking about Indians or American Indians? Native Americans are doing terribly. Their suicide and alcoholism rates are high. Sexual assault, poor health, and poverty are huge issues on reservations.   

Being completely barred from a country, and prevented from accessing the economic infrastructure of a country is comparable to what blacks have experienced. The KKK was just as aggressive towards Jews as it was towards blacks. Again, Indians, Jews, and Asians have gone from being completely ostracized to being more successful than whites. Their model of success seems to be better than the current model of victimization perpetuated by black communities.

You sure do like to deny other people's experiences. You're so arrogant that you don't care to listen to other people's realities. You're not black, and you think you know more than a black person does on how it is to be black. You're also attempting to belittle the knowledge of someone who has studied this field for years by comparing her to TV personalities. It's like a patient trying to tell a doctor how to perform open heart surgery. It's astounding. Who are you, and what qualifies you as an expert in being black or in CJ in general?

I'm not a lion either, but that doesn't prevent me from learning about and understanding lions. Use objective facts and articulable arguments rather than anecdotes and feelings. The real arrogance is continuing to support a model that has failed for the last century.