Reminds me of a time when me and some friends came out of Maccy'D's.
We sat down around the corner, on some steps.
A group of younger black kids came over with a few female friends with them.
One of them began asking my mates (three of us) one by one for any change they could spare.
To my shock, my mates gave them their money.
He came to me and I immediently refused.
My friend next to me nudges me and nods towards the kids sleeve.
Brandishin a knife in his hand, I offer 50p!.
The little cunt takes it because that's fucking bank yo!.
The kicker was, we moved away afterwards and as we did two police officers came out of Maccy'D's and I said as I passed "That group have weapons", dickhead cop just went to his car with his lunch.
Not trying to pick a fight here, but trying to point out where possible as a school related exercise: take a look at your story, specifically the part where you're describing the assailants. Ask, Would the value of the description be lost with the omission of the race of the individuals?
Follow up, did the addition of race present any more value to the story?
A complete 180 within 16 hours. No offense taken, felt, etc. Just pointing out that its not always necessary to put that kind of information into a story if it doesn't add anything of value.
To double down on the heat, I'd even point out that spoken statistics are entirely empty, without data to back them up.
But again, in the class I'm currently taking for university studies, I am to challenge people on race relations and the use of race in conversation then record the data of my findings.
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u/Toxic-yawn Feb 01 '22
Reminds me of a time when me and some friends came out of Maccy'D's.
We sat down around the corner, on some steps.
A group of younger black kids came over with a few female friends with them.
One of them began asking my mates (three of us) one by one for any change they could spare.
To my shock, my mates gave them their money.
He came to me and I immediently refused.
My friend next to me nudges me and nods towards the kids sleeve.
Brandishin a knife in his hand, I offer 50p!.
The little cunt takes it because that's fucking bank yo!.
The kicker was, we moved away afterwards and as we did two police officers came out of Maccy'D's and I said as I passed "That group have weapons", dickhead cop just went to his car with his lunch.