{"id":9483,"date":"2014-12-04T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9483"},"modified":"2019-12-23T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T00:13:17","slug":"two-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/12\/04\/two-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two\u00a0profoundly<\/em> different experiences of life in our country that you should be aware of: [#CrimingWhileWhite] and [#AliveWhileBlack].<\/p>\n

\n 14- took my dads car to a party. Pulled over for running a stop sign, had a shotgun in backseat (hunting) “Get home safe” #CrimingWhileWhite<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mrs.\u00a0Eric Berry (@Miss_Facetious) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Those police asked where I live. When I pointed behind me at my house where they had called me from they said “no, really” #alivewhileblack<\/a><\/p>\n

— \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u064a\u0641 M. \u00d6mer (@KTownsVeryOwn) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

At 13 I stole a car with my friends & drove it 2wks before we got busted. Only one charged was black. [#CrimingWhileWhite][#CrimingWhileWhite1]<\/p>\n

— Cecily Kellogg (@Cecilyk) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Walking to library. Campus security stops me and asks for ID. Several times. Claims I don\\’t “look” like a law student. #AliveWhileBlack<\/a><\/p>\n

— GrooveSDC (@GrooveSDC) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Age 17: I bought gas but forgot to pay; an hour later I came back and they said they told the cops two black men did it. [#CrimingWhileWhite][#CrimingWhileWhite1]<\/p>\n

— Jacob Harold (@jacobcharold) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Stopped b\/c child “did not look like he shld be w\/me”Asked to prove my light-skinned nephew was not being kidnapped [#alivewhileblack][#alivewhileblack2]<\/p>\n

— karla holloway (@ProfHolloway) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Drug use, vandalism of govt property, running fake ID mill, theft, sale of stolen property — all before I was 20 [#CrimingWhileWhite][#CrimingWhileWhite1]<\/p>\n

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

was robbed at knife point in Charlotte. When the police came, told them what was taken, they asked “Why wld u have a pager” [#alivewhileblack][#alivewhileblack2]<\/p>\n

— J I \u039b (@missjia) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Party busted, ran from Indiana cop. He caught me, furious: “if you were black I\\’d-a shot you.” Cuffed, lectured, let go. [#CrimingWhileWhite][#CrimingWhileWhite1]<\/p>\n

— Andy Cobb (@AndyCobb) December 4, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

17 y\/o – Drove to Kroger to get mom Nyquil. Pulled over unexplained. Asked why I was in my neighborhood. 4 backup cop cars. [#AliveWhileBlack][#AliveWhileBlack5]<\/p>\n

— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) December 4, 2014<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two profoundly different experiences of life in our country that you should be aware of: #CrimingWhileWhite and #AliveWhileBlack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}