"I get so nauseous and so angry," said Porter, the Upper Dimond resident, who is also a member of Neighbors for Racial Justice. When I met her for coffee, she handed me a stack of Nextdoor Oakmore printouts with racially biased reports of suspicion.
One user told people to be alert after seeing an "African American driver" inside a white commercial van, wearing a "bright green vest," parked on the street at 2 a.m. — nothing else suspicious. In a post this summer, a resident warned others to watch out for "two young African Americans, slim, baggy pants, early 20s" who said they were looking for a lost dog. Noting that they did not have "anything like bags to carry stuff out of a house they might break into," the woman said the situation may be "benign," but added, "I have a sense that it wasn't." In another post, a man warned of a "nefarious individual" — a Black youth who appeared to be sixteen years old — who came to his door saying he was looking for his friend. Another posted about a Latino man, describing him as a "suspicious character" who appeared "visibly nervous" and was "hiding near the bus stop."
For cryin' out loud! Has is not occurred to anyone that getting over the fear of what unknown (to you) people in your neighborhood might be up to is more easily cured by getting out of your house and meeting and talking to your neighbors than reporting them anonymously on a "social" website? Have we become a nation of chicken**** tattletale hall monitors? Please find your balls, America.
Yeah instead of getting to know their neighbors who've lived in the neighborhood longer than they have in many cases. They'd rather reckless and dangerous assumptions about people of color. Could you imagine if black people did these kinds of things to white people just moving into the neighborhood? People wonder why many people don't like gentrification. The people who've been living in the neighborhood don't get to benefit from it. Instead they get harassment from the neighbors and police. I wonder could someone sue for libel.
doing the absolute most.
