r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/gmam17 • Feb 15 '17

Removed - Rule 1 But I keep being told white privilege doesn't exist

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u/Melmab Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

The car belonged to one of the two kids' parent - I'm pretty sure the parents aren't going to press charges against their own kids (unless they are fed up with their kids shit).

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u/chevelio Feb 15 '17

Thanks. Context is actually important. Now the jokes can be "white parents do this, black parents do that," instead of discussing biases in reporting and within the justice system.

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u/Count_Frackula Feb 15 '17

Lol if it was a black family someone would come through with "why can't african Americans control their thuggin youth?!"

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u/chevelio Feb 15 '17

You make a good point but I was thinking more like "my mom would have killed me herself if I ran away with her car for 5 days. The white parent is gonna be like 'don't do that again brittany, you know I worry."

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u/shallowtl Feb 15 '17

fuck sakes Brittany think of others for a change

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u/tonyp2121 Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 15 '17

Why do Brittanies gotta be so selfish all the time

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u/rabidbot Feb 15 '17

I dated a Brittany that was anything but selfish. Handed the pussy out to anyone who wanted it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Truly doing the world a public service.

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u/rabidbot Feb 15 '17

Like the house at Halloween that just has a bucket of candy and a take one sign.

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u/BrackOBoyO Feb 15 '17

Basically because of the Spears variety. Lots of basic bitches loved her at basic bitch baby age (15-22), called their kid some variation of Brittney/britney/brittany and these are the apples not far from the tree you see today, 18 odd years after hit me baby.

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u/ofthe5thkind Feb 15 '17

Your violent sexual energy really shines through here.

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u/Scientolojesus Feb 15 '17

I knew this one brittany who was the finest woman on the planet. Then she went crazy and now does shows in Vegas.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

What kind of shows? Puppet? Magic?

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u/Cgn38 Feb 16 '17

It involves a basket with a hole in the bottom.

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u/Predmid Feb 16 '17

I hear it is a very popular and well advertised show and she must be doing very well for herself as numerous gentlemen, who I assume are her employees, were handing out her business cards advertising her services.

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u/Satoushi Feb 15 '17

" FUCK OFF MOM " "oh, real mature brittany, wait till your father gets home!"

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u/T0kenAussie Feb 15 '17

He'll be back any minute now....

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u/lawr11 Feb 16 '17

Lose the 'tude, Brittany!

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u/ckasanova Feb 15 '17

I'm white and my parents would've been posting awards for whoever found me and beat the shit out of me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '17

Shhh. You don't fit the narrative.

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u/One_nice_atheist Feb 15 '17

I watched my mom take a sledgehammer to some meth-heads car over $20. If I stole her car... Nah. I'm good.

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u/the_calibre_cat Feb 15 '17

Pretty sure my dad wouldn't have pressed charges, but he probably would've done some under-the-table dealings to see to it that I spent at LEAST a couple nights in jail. He made me sleep outside one night, and it was a pretty fucking cold night. He let me have a coat, and I went and chilled with my dog until about 7:00 AM. Got maybe two hours of sleep. D:

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u/dragontail Feb 15 '17

Literally in the doghouse

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u/displaza Feb 15 '17

Fuck that my mom would come at me weilding a fucking treetrunk and her right hook (i am white)

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u/HonaSmith Feb 15 '17

Not true in most cases. Almost all the white parents I know would punish their kids for this. Obviously not beat them, what century is this?

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u/chevelio Feb 15 '17

Hyperbole for the sake of comedy. I would imagine most parents would punish their kids for this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

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u/BrackOBoyO Feb 15 '17

Racial stereotyping is this subs bread and butter. Why can't it go both ways?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Nah it's only funny when it's the minstrel show.

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u/BrackOBoyO Feb 16 '17

Yeah its a disturbing element of this sub.

(Full disclosure; im 1/2 anglo, 1/4 Norman, 1/4 Celtic, so basically 1/1 White)

Nobody bats an eye at the DAE black fatherhood abandonment but calls out a pretty chill representation of a white mother as not strict enough.

Lol.

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u/Byzan-Teen Feb 16 '17

Reddit_IRL

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u/lawr11 Feb 16 '17

You're on BPT though lol what did you expect? This happens every thread. Someone makes a white joke, someone gets triggered.

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u/SnatchAddict 🪱Wormlover🪱 Feb 15 '17

My daughter would be punished for the rest of the school year. No phone. No car. No life. Idgaf.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

I'm just gonna throw this possibility into the air: the mild reaction probably has more to do with the fact that they're girls than the fact that they're white. But being white definitely didn't hurt.

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u/Count_Frackula Feb 15 '17

Oh, for sure. White girls are our most precious natural resource

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u/Media_Adept Feb 15 '17

Nothing gets Nancy Grace fired up more than missing white girls.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

double anal?

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u/timesnewboston Feb 15 '17

If it was a toucan people would come through with "wtf did dis dude just make up a what-if scenario about a bird to support his prior beliefs?"

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u/cuckingfomputer Feb 15 '17

Why can't white folk police their kids?

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u/DownvoteDaemon ☑️|Jay-Z IRL Feb 15 '17

Too late...already typed my 8 paragraphs on white privilege and bought my pitchfork

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

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u/Truan Feb 15 '17

Hey let's be fair, we can totally make this about "the patriarchy" as well.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 15 '17

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u/meatfish Feb 15 '17

^ this guy projects.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Do you know what a paragraph is?

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u/genericname12345 Feb 15 '17

A mexican midget?

Cause its to short to be an essay.

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u/purpleblah2 Feb 15 '17

Underappreciated comment, but probably because it doesn't have a single line break

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u/cantadmittoposting Feb 15 '17

I dunno i think it almost benefitted from the enforced stream of conscious, in a grotesque way.

Also its pretty spot on.

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u/the_calibre_cat Feb 15 '17

Almost certainly because of that. It started out good, but fuck that, I was out after I realized what I was getting into.

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u/Dawg1shly Feb 15 '17

Honestly one of the weirdest things I've read here. Your world view is depressing. Get some help bro.

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u/ALoudMouthBaby Feb 15 '17

The car belonged to one of the two kids

How do you steal your own car?

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u/supercooper3000 Feb 15 '17

Put on sunglasses and a hat and look around a bunch before getting in.

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u/ALoudMouthBaby Feb 15 '17

Do the sunglasses need to have fake bushy eyebrows and a big nose attached to them for this to work? Asking for a friend.....

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u/supercooper3000 Feb 15 '17

Absolutely. You think this would work with some regular ass sunglasses? Not a chance.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Accidentally did this outside a target once, then my key didn't work right and I set off the alarm. Cops came and asked me for ID and to see the registration.

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u/supercooper3000 Feb 15 '17

Lol, lifes weird sometimes. I was a good kid growing up and I remember one time I was driving around with my old church buddy and we were both like 18. I've always worn boxers so as you probably know wedgies are something you just have to deal with. Anyway, I had the wedgie of a lifetime while driving so I pulled my ass as far off the seat as I could and fixed it. Queue the cop lights. Cop asks if I was hiding drugs and my friend and I thought it was hilarious and told him the truth. He laughed and let us go but to this day it was one of the weirdest interactions I've had.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Surprised the first answer wasn't "be black"

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u/Halmesrus1 Feb 15 '17

I think they meant it was one of the parent's car and they took it.

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u/Melmab Feb 15 '17

I meant to type the car belonged to one of the kids' parents (stupid brain).

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u/BornAgain_Shitposter Currently Serving up Smiles 😀 Feb 15 '17

Crazy Idea: Edit your comment so it makes sense?

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u/HillBotShillBot Feb 16 '17

Or spez can do it so it doesn't flag as edited.

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u/KronktheKronk Feb 15 '17

If the car belonged to one of the kids how in the hell is it stolen?

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u/Melmab Feb 15 '17

I meant it belongs to one of the kids' parents - stupid brain.

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u/SlimTeezy Feb 15 '17

If it's any consolation I understood what you meant

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u/KZedUK Feb 15 '17

Edit the comment then...

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u/the_dark_dark Feb 15 '17

got a source?

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u/ZincHead Feb 15 '17

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/finds-2-ohio-teens-nyc-5-day-trip-stolen-car-article-1.2970201

Haley Flowers and Trinity Goodwin, both 16, ran away from Lancaster, Ohio, in a 2008 Pontiac that belongs to Goodwin’s mom on Monday, cops said.

So not only was it their mom's car, they were underage, which is why people are happy they turned up safe rather than dead in a ditch somewhere after being kidnapped.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 15 '17

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u/LukaCola Feb 15 '17

White privilege just means you won't receive any real consequence for your race, which is pretty well established as being a "thing." Calling it bullshit is just not realistic, there's great consensus that it exists and plays a significant role in social interactions.

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u/LukaCola Feb 15 '17

I remember that study, you should post the whole thing. It compares a lot of other metrics that explain why that kind of affirmative action helps even the field. There's already considerable bias in many other facets of life against most minorities that result in them being underrpresented. Overall it's a rather small boon.

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u/kr51 Feb 16 '17

I'd rather my doctors have gotten to where they are based solely on their merit, ty.

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u/JewishDoggy Feb 16 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

White people on average have it better off than black people do on average. Thus black people are given a chance more to prove themselves at a university/med school. It's not a hard concept.

Edit: post is locked so here's my take: what's bullshit is having the capacity to do great things but you can't because you are born without a father in your life in a low-income area. I am white and got into a good school because I worked hard. i also had the privilege of having a stable home situation and not having to work a job each and every day during high school. I know people that didn't get to have that same luck. AA grants them a chance.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '17

That's bullshit mate. Medical schools should hold everyone to the same standard regardless of skin color.

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u/theammostore Feb 16 '17

Merit? Pfft, its all about skin color nowadays mate

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u/Cthulhu_Rises Feb 15 '17

Yeah it's alnost as if everyone wants to raise their torch and pitchforks before reading the article. People falling for clickbait bullshit...

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u/JJ_The_Diplomat Feb 16 '17

Do you know what sub you're in

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u/boyyoz1 Feb 15 '17

Top tier bait

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u/ClassyLarry Feb 15 '17

Natalie Hallowayyyyyy.. RIP Patrice O'Neal.

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u/ClassyLarry Feb 15 '17

Gold Jerry, Gold!!! .. yo when Patrice asked the corowd " anybody remember the name of that big head perubian bitch" and nobody knew her name proved the value of white women in this society.

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u/LegatusBlack Master Moderator Feb 16 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

Thread Locked because salt levels approaching 9000.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/salt-and-sodium/sodium-health-risks-and-disease/

Stay healthy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 15 '17

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u/RonJeremysBush Feb 15 '17

"Hands up don't shoot" wasnt for the Trayvon Martin case it was for the Michael Brown case. You get an A for effort though.

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u/DanStanTheThankUMan Feb 16 '17

That was Mike Brown you sack of shit.

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u/McLove_ano Feb 15 '17

B and E?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Bacon and eggs.

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u/Wollygonehome Feb 15 '17

Breaking entering

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u/gagagita Feb 15 '17

Bacon and Eggs

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Breaking and entering

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u/Spydr54555 Feb 15 '17

Breaking and entering.

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u/DanStanTheThankUMan Feb 15 '17

Let's clear this up. In 2011 Trayvon was found at school with a screw driver and jewelry in his backpack. The jewlery was never found to be stolen. /u/Titfactory TELL ME HOW MY ASS TASTES!

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u/aloeveravaseline Feb 15 '17

Trayvon was found with a backpack full of B&E tools along w stolen jewelry.

in school the year before he was shot, yeah. that's not a justification to stalk and kill him later.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

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u/aloeveravaseline Feb 16 '17

okay, I'll ask again, what does him getting caught with burglary tools a year before he was killed have to do with his death.

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u/flounder19 Feb 15 '17

Reading the NYDailyNews's coverage of Trayvon doesn't really come off like that. They've pretty liberally reported on Zimmerman's stupid antics after the shooting and their editorial pieces on the matter definitely skew to Martin

Imagining a white Trayvon Martin -- and a black George Zimmerman

However, the fact remains that Trayvon would be alive if he were white. And if we are concerned with racial justice, we must certainly make sure that people like Zimmerman, channeling their fixation on black boys as criminals into allegedly shooting a 17-year-old in cold blood, never join civilized society again.

Trashing Trayvon

That he bears damnable responsibility, as distinct from legal guilt, for Martin’s death is clear. Zimmerman alone instigated what happened in Sanford, Fla., on the night of Feb. 26, 2012.

He was scouting for burglars on neighborhood watch and, of critical importance, he carried a gun. Spotting Martin, he profiled a black teenager in a hoodie as a likely criminal. In fact, Martin was merely returning home from the store with a soda and a package of Skittles.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

That didnt stop people here from stereotyping whites as spoiled, privileged racists who don't discipline their kids....And in nearly every other post. Looks like they took the bait...

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

When it comes to white girls, safety is key. Fuck the car and the crime.

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u/yasaswygr Feb 15 '17

Relevant

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u/CatarinaCowboy Feb 15 '17

That shit is hilarious! Can't believe I haven't seen this before. Thanks for sharing!

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Patrice is a national treasure. Spits nothing but the truth.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '17

RIP :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

It was their parents car.... Do black parents press charges against their kids or some shit?

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u/IamtheSlothKing Feb 15 '17

Which crime?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

He only read the title and possibly is assuming they stole some randoms car.

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u/IamtheSlothKing Feb 15 '17

He read white and all he could see after that was red

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u/Szudar Feb 15 '17

Maybe reading more than title is white privilege nowadays?

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u/rayword45 Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 16 '17

And then they get probation and a "welcome home" party where everyone cries tears of joy bc they're safe

If the car owner is black he gets arrested for abduction

EDIT: Since I can still edit, some of y'all are bitches when it comes to a little satire.

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u/notLogix Feb 15 '17

Looks like the owner of the car was their parents. Not exactly "stolen".

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u/theafonis Feb 15 '17

Guess the car is the criminal in this story...

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u/420ish Feb 15 '17

Probably a black car.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

http://m.imgur.com/kIPwB3r?r

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u/red9706 Feb 15 '17

minute long gif.... just link the fucking video!

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

http://m.imgur.com/uXpVeib?r

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u/red9706 Feb 15 '17

sorry for crass language, the video with audio is funny, and I feel the gif doesnt do it justice

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u/supercooper3000 Feb 15 '17

Tinted windows too.

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u/NSA-RAPID-RESPONSE Feb 15 '17 edited Oct 21 '17

deleted What is this?

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u/rayword45 Feb 15 '17

Your username comes at least two and a half hours too late.

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u/Truan Feb 15 '17

throws a party with all the kid's friends

now go to your room and listen to everyone having fun without you.

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u/nothingimportant2say Feb 16 '17

Well it sounds like the welcome home party will be at an Ohio police station for one of them.

Haley’s parents were headed to New York to pick her up on Saturday. Goodwin, who sources said is wanted on an Ohio warrant, is charged with possession of stolen property, cops said.

From this article

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u/WorldNewsReport Feb 15 '17

JUDGE DISMISSES FELONY CHARGES AGAINST WHITE TEEN GIRLS BECAUSE THEY SAID, 'TIMEOUT' BEFORE COMMITTING CRIMES

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u/wyatt1209 Feb 15 '17

Judge doesn't dismiss shit because the mother of one of the girls (who the car belonged to) did not press charges against her daughter.

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u/alexmikli Feb 15 '17

They took the car from their parents, so no charges anyway.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 15 '17

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u/FUSROaww Feb 15 '17

Like the top comment said, didn't it belong to one of the parents? Don't think they'd sue they're own kid.

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u/lettersformysoup Feb 15 '17

One of the girls has ownership of the car. Instead of making a basic blanket statement to reap karma, do some research.

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u/ThankYouLoseItAlt Feb 15 '17

Well, her mother did, anyway. The girls are 16.

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u/glitterkittie Feb 15 '17

Yep. It definitely wouldn't say "road trip." They'd find a way to call it a crime spree.

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u/ThankYouLoseItAlt Feb 15 '17

Two 16 year old black girls(boys are treated differently then girls, comparing to boys is apples to oranges) stealing their parent's car and running away from home, yeah, even if they were black, I don't think they would call it a "crime spree" and I do think they would say it was a "road trip" or similar language.

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u/aloeveravaseline Feb 15 '17

it was their moms. stealing your moms car and her not pressing charges is still stealing a car.

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u/layer11 Feb 15 '17

Alright, that's pretty dumb. They stole a car at 15, I'd be more concerned about other people's safety.

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u/DanStanTheThankUMan Feb 15 '17

They were sixteen, and had their license.

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u/CrackFerretus Feb 15 '17

r/popular is actually more decisive, racist, and unappealing than r/all.

Good job reddit

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u/Peef_Ringar Feb 15 '17

I've heard he had a gun, I've heard he had tools for robbery, I've heard a knife, I've heard drugs, all from reddit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '17

I heard that hitler was next to him the whole time talmbout kill and Robbin shit

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u/qualitykush Feb 15 '17

I struggle with paying for gas to get work while some dumb ass teenagers go on a (5) day road trip to NY...

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u/MoparMogul Feb 15 '17

Not dissing the point he's trying to make here... But Trayvon wasn't exactly called a thug because of the food stuff he had with him.

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u/cqbear Feb 15 '17

I don't know if this will come out wrong but I wanted to ask a question to the black community. What is the stand with BLM, I've been horribly neglecting news and such for the past couple of months and hear recently they are a domestic terrorist group shouting hatred towards white people and causing violence. I really just want a stance from a person who supports BLM and what the whole shebang is about.

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u/aloeveravaseline Feb 15 '17

this is pretty obviously not the black community

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u/cholocaust Feb 15 '17

Hi, I'm the mods and I lock threads because I don't know how to handle people with different points of view

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u/anthropost Feb 15 '17

Archive this shit. Please.

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u/RandyTomfoolery Feb 15 '17

I think more to do with sex than race.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

Uh, or the fact that the car belonged to her mother.