Sunday, July 24, 2016

Playing Pokémon Go while Black: Fear stifles the fun

A few years ago Stacey talked about how she couldn't understand why I was so against Dancing and Dance and Flash Mobs and I explained to her that when Black People engage in enjoying Ourselves and freely doing so in public, Whites turn it into a reason to call the Nazi-cops and fuck Us up for it! She couldn't understand that and took it personal, well?

With all of this shit going on now, HOW. ABOUT. NOW?
See, when you live IN THE REAL WORLD.
And have had GUNS POINTED IN YOUR FACE BECAUSE YOU WANNA BREAKDANCE ON THE CORNER BUT SOME WHITES DON'T WANT YOU DANCING ON YOUR OWN FUCKIN STREET CORNER!?
I did the best that I could to get her to understand why I was reacting the way I was to her trying to show me these videos that she enjoyed and wanted to be a part of where? 
For her?
It was all about why couldn't I just be happy for her and just enjoy what she was talking about.
For me?
I was letting her UNDERSTAND THAT THESE THINGS NEARLY GOT ME MURDERED!
Because a bunch of Whites DIDN'T LIKE ME AND MY FRIENDS, dancing on the corner.
So while she either didn't know or didn't care that what she was really showing me was the fact that she knew and knows NOTHING ABOUT living underneath such conditions.
Which stood out to me since she grew up in Apartheid.
But clearly something went on where the horrors and brutality OF APARTHEID was NOT UP IN HER FACE THE WAY IT WAS FOR, oh that's right.
She's Coloured.
Not Black.

She had no clue that her being unable to understand where I was coming from or what I was saying, was highlighting that somehow she'd come through Apartheid and clearly DID NOT EXPERIENCE NOT BEING ABLE TO DO AND ENJOY CERTAIN THINGS BECAUSE SHE WAS NOT WHITE. It was something I paid attention and simply noted it and kept moving. And before you get sensitive about it Stacey. Behold two instances ALREADY.

Where Pokemon Go has nearly gotten TWO BLACKMEN MURDERED.
From PLAYING.
A FUCKING.
GAME!
Where I already noted that a bunch of Whites and their Slave were STANDING IN THE STREET AT MY JOB AND NOT GIVING A FUCK! They expected NOT TO GET HIT! And FORGOT that they are STANDING IN A PARKING LOT WITH WHITES WORKING THERE WHO WILL BE ABLE TO RUN THEM OVER AND BEAT THE RAP! 

Bottom line, HERE IS THE ARTICLE and NOTE! That in typical fashion for SOME Black People. Instead of FACING REALITY AND DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THAT FIRST!? These fuckin fools say, FUCK THAT! I'MA PLAY THIS GAME EVEN IF IT GETS ME FUCKIN KILLED! That, IS STUPIDITY!
This was part of the reason why after awhile I became frustrated and finally said fuck-it in regards to certain things that Stacey would say I was being too harsh about or supposedly bitter. For some women they only learn shit when the enemies of their so-called men have finally murdered enough of the men and now they can simply bash down the door and commence with RAPING THEM!
Then all of a sudden she understands that Her Man was ALWAYS THE TARGET TO BE GOTTEN RID OF AND NOW THAT HE'S GONE!?
You gonna take up guns and fight bloody battles against these Other Men now that the covert crap is done with. And they feel COMFORTABLE AND SECURE ENOUGH IN THE FACT THEY CAN NOW WIN AN OVERT WAR WITH YOU AND YOURS!
Now that you don't have enough MEN to DEFEND YOU.

I can't waste nor spend my time trying to EDUCATE someone who SHOULD KNOW BETTER BASED ON WHERE THEY CAME FROM. Until I had to accept the fact that the REALITY IS that YOU NEVER had to face what We ARE FACING. Because YOUR RACE SOLD THE FUCK OUT TO WHITES!
And they were rewarded with a higher status.
Better schools.
Services.
ETC!
But now with the madness going on OPENLY, when exactly are you going to ADMIT YOUR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING AND HOW WRONG YOU WERE.
Never.
That's when.
And I'm not gonna wait around for any apology from you anyway.

Here is an article that shows that playing a stupid game can get you killed as a Blackman IN PARTICULAR;

Playing Pokémon Go while black: Fear stifles the fun

SAN FRANCISCO — Omari Akil says he couldn't wait to play Pokémon Go — until he went outside for 20 minutes.
Akil, a writer and business systems analyst from Chapel Hill, N.C., spent five minutes enjoying the game, including one minute "trying to look as pleasant and nonthreatening as possible as I walked by a somewhat visibly disturbed white woman on her way to the bus stop."
"I spent the other 14 minutes being distracted from the game by thoughts of the countless Black Men who have had the police called on them because they looked 'suspicious' or wondering what a second amendment exercising individual might do if I walked past their window a third or fourth time in search of a Jigglypuff," Akil wrote in a piece he published on Medium.
"When my brain started combining the complexity of being Black in America with the real world proposal of wandering and exploration that is designed into the  game play of Pokémon Go, there was only one conclusion. I might die if I keep playing."
For the most part, Pokémon Go is all fun and games. Yet for some African Americans, especially African-American men, their enjoyment is undercut by fears they might arouse suspicion with potentially lethal consequences. The smartphone game sends people out in the world to capture monsters from the Japanese cartoon franchise. It landed as the nation was reeling from the police shooting deaths of two African Americans and the deaths of five police officers gunned down in Dallas.
Wrote Akil: "Let's just go ahead and add Pokémon Go to the extremely long list of things white people can do without fear of being killed, while Black people have to realistically be wary."
Malik Bennett, 18, who will be a college freshman this fall, says he's been playing Pokémon since he was in diapers. "There has not been a two-week span that I haven't touched a Pokémon game," Bennett, of West Columbia, S.C., says.
Since Pokémon Go was released, "I have been playing the game a lot," he says. But, at the urging of his older brother and parents, Bennett makes sure he's always aware of his surroundings. With an ear bud in one ear and his phone in his right hand or pocket, he waits for notifications to pop up before turning his attention to his phone screen.
Anthony Battey says he knows other Pokémon Go players wander the San Francisco streets at all hours hunting for Pokémon. But he's not one of them.
"I was out the other night and I saw a lot of cops and I thought, ‘You know what? Let me go' " home,  Battey, 25, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
A Tumblr post offers tips on how to play Pokémon while black. Among them: Walk a dog (on a cloth leash, not a chain), wear glasses, avoid white neighborhoods or bring a non-black friend.
"Sharing because there is a double standard. Black people shouldn’t have to take precautions to play a game, especially when we’ve already got stories of white people running into traffic and disrupting businesses to catch their Pokémon," the Tumblr post reads.
In the U.S., black people are stopped, searched, arrested and imprisoned at rates higher than people of other races. Research by USA TODAY, which tracked arrests reported to the federal government in 2011 and 2012, found that in at least 70 police departments from Connecticut to California, black people were arrested at a rate 10 times higher than other people.
Ronnie Dunn, associate professor of urban studies at Cleveland State University, says he understands the apprehension given "the seeming inability for African Americans to move freely about public space unimpeded by law enforcement."
"There is the potential for blacks, males in particular, to be racially profiled, as they search out game figures minimally aware of the areas and public spaces the game might lead them to," Dunn says. "Their lack of awareness of their surroundings can also heighten the potential risk" as was the case in the police shooting death of John Crawford III in an Ohio Walmart store in 2014.
Despite running greater risks, some say they won't stop playing Pokémon Go.
Tarik Hamilton, a 24-year-old Web developer from St. Petersburg, Fla., grew up on Pokémon and could not wait to take to the streets in search of them. In the process, he has gotten plenty of fresh air and exercise.
Hamilton says he takes precautions so that his erratic behavior doesn't make him look suspicious. He doesn't trespass on private property. He does not repeatedly retrace his steps. He does not loiter in one spot for too long.
"I know there are certain risks based on the current political climate," Hamilton says. "It's no different than life before Pokémon when I would go out for a walk with my phone."
What's changed is that many people, including police officers, are playing the highly social game. And, in one instance, that led to a rare moment of unity.
On the same evening Black Lives Matter protests were taking place, Bennett says he played Pokémon with his girlfriend and her brother, who are both white, in their Columbia, S.C., neighborhood, which has more white residents and is more affluent than his own.
At about 10 p.m., they headed to a nearby church for a "gym" battle. Pokémon gyms are places where players who reach a certain level in the game go to train their Pokémon characters.  A cop drove by them and pulled into the church parking lot. His girlfriend offered to turn around but Bennett, while apprehensive, said no. "We are just playing Pokémon," he said.
In the church parking lot, Bennett started the gym battle on his phone's Pokémon Go app. Then he heard the cop on his loudspeaker: "Team Valor has already taken this gym."
Bennett cautiously approached the police car to inform the officer they were all on the same team. The cop fist-bumped Bennett and then pointed out some rare Pokémon lurking in the area.
"We were just there for the same reason," Bennett says. "I can see the game helping out because it's simple and people have the same goals. People want to go out, catch Pokémon and they want to be with their friends.
Note the PHONY BULLSHIT AT THE END OF;
We ALL IZ IN DIS 2GETHER!
-_-
Go fuck yourself whoever wrote that article.
Because WE ARE NOT ALL IN THIS TOGETHER because WHITES CAN RANDOMLY ROAM WHEREVER AND NOT GET MURDERED FOR IT!

But people wanna pretend like they "don't understand" why Black People are "always so angry". Talk to this video, it'll explain it all to you;


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