NBA Player Gets Racially Profiled At Jewelry Store in Milwaukee

[aSimpNamedBrokeback]

I don't know the backstory of Mr. Henson, but if he was dressing hoodish, then I have no sympathy.

WTF is dressing hoodish? I've never lived in the hood nor to I dress like I have yet women and men will lock their car doors, clutch their purses and put their hands over their wallets all the time. People don't care if your dressed hoodish or not, must white people wouldn't know either way.

 

[Phoenix]

He should've trolled them by marching up menacingly and drawing from his pocket a stack of benjamins, shoving it in their face and yelling "gime all yo watches!".

 

[jariel]

EL Chapo - what you fail to realize that store probably wouldn't have let you in either.

I've noticed a number of his other posts and likes of other posts, so I'm not surprised by his point of view as it pertains to this discussion. Before I would have taken the time to drop the napalm, but at this point of the game, I've reached a certain level, so I'll just leave it at the fact that I've observed.

 

[TheWastelander]

A multimillionaire who gets paid to chase a ball gets briefly questioned by police?

What a terrible, evil country we live in.

 

[JacksonRev]

^Please explain to me how I must fit in? I see plenty of people that don't fit in and they never seem to have a problem.

Never said you had to fit in.

You got arrested for being white in a "brown" and "black" neighborhood. LMAO complete BS.

And you wonder why you don't fit in.

You tried to learn the language, you do realize we are talking about a place in the USA.

Wash/warsh, you's/you all/y'all/you guys/you's guys, car/cah, idea/idear, ask/axe, etc.

 

[Moma]

I hope you lot saying that he should dress better to avoid racially profiling should also look at instances where a white guy shows up in a store dressed like a bummy farmer from Idaho or Utah with overalls and a straw in his mouth saying "Arrh".

What if a white guy that look like Hank Hill's neighbours (Boomhower or Bill) show up there? By your rationale, they should also receive discriminatory treatment. As far as I'm concerned, those guys also represent a lower tier of society (if one is to apply the same litmus test). I wager however, that they will get benefit of the doubt.

One must also realise that white guys are dressing like that in the hordes..especially in the suburbs. That is hip hop clothing and those guys wear that stuff in the truck loads. I went to a battle rap event a few years ago and the place was flooded with white guys. 90 percent of these guys who love hip hop were dressed with Jordans (red and black), sagging jeans shorts, bandanas and dripping with tattoos.

For many of you commentators that live in your isolated community, realise that this fashion is not limited to black guys from the streets. I was the cleanest guy in this battle rap event (no tattoos, fitted jeans and no brand name basketball sneaks)!

I bring this up to say that if a guy looking like Eminem or Paul Wall showed up in their attire at the jewellery store, would they get the same treatment? If not, then why not?

I don't mind cats to have a preference or grudge against race (that's why I thumbed up Krauser for being frank) but I chuckle when it's masked behind 'logic' or reasoning.

 

[EL CHAPO]

EL Chapo - what you fail to realize that store probably wouldn't have let you in either.

I've noticed a number of his other posts and likes of other posts, so I'm not surprised by his point of view as it pertains to this discussion. Before I would have taken the time to drop the napalm, but at this point of the game, I've reached a certain level, so I'll just leave it at the fact that I've observed.

What are you surprised by?

I as a Black man want to see fellow Blacks leave this degenerate rap and hip-hop culture that has plagued our communities. I want Black people to appreciate what they have by knowing what true hard work really is like instead of adopting this gangster thug culture that has destroyed our image and our communities where we have embraced criminality and violence. We are never going to be taken seriously until we leave that gangster culture and become serious about our lives.

Image is everything in America. But if we're going to sit here and tell Black people and coddle and say "hey its ok, you can dress how you want to dress and everything will be ok," we will be doing huge damage to our kids. No one is going to hire them with all of that baggage.

This conversation reminds me of this, when loc dog would come in wanting a job dressing all hood-rattish:




I'm looking out for Black folks. I want them to do well! I'm probably looking out for them more than many of you.

 

[TheWastelander]

 

[phluff127]

I live and have lived in Milwaukee my whole life. The city is booming and better than ever and the racism is vastly over rated. Truthfully if anything the races pretty much keep to themselves by their own accord and everyone seems to be ok with it. this instance is a big deal in Milwaukee because it is out of the ordinary. It'd be way more expected in the western suburbs tho

 

[Samseau]

Why not give the jewelry store the benefit of the doubt? Perhaps they've been robbed by a tall Black guy before?

WTF!?!? I guess if a tall white guy robbed the store, then they would start profiling tall white guys too!

Lets be realistic here.

Come on guys, this is Samseau!

That's right, this is Samseau. Stormfront Samseau giving the benefit of the doubt to a situation he only hears about through the news and it turns out to be right.

The people who accused me of racism the loudest incidentally revealed their own racism quite clearly. In this thread they were angry with me for not condemning someone of "racial profiling" when in fact the cops were called regardless of the man's color, as Wastelander shows. Because someone wouldn't start howling about the imaginary White Supremacist threat and considered that there could be other causes or simply a case of mistaken identity.

 

[jariel]

That's right, this is Samseau. Stormfront Samseau giving the benefit of the doubt to a situation he only hears about through the news and it turns out to be right.

The people who accused me of racism the loudest incidentally revealed their own racism quite clearly. In this thread they were angry with me for not condemning someone of "racial profiling" when in fact the cops were called regardless of the man's color, as Wastelander shows. Because someone wouldn't start howling about the imaginary White Supremacist threat and considered that there could be other causes or simply a case of mistaken identity.

Yeah, because a self-serving statement filled with unverifiable information and plausible deniability made after the fact completely washes their hands of the incident.

John Henson is such a "valuable member of the Milwaukee community" that even though he's been a member of the Milwaukee Bucks for four years and he's an abnormally tall human being, not one person involved in the incident recognized who he was.

One of the problems with this racism shit is that people who aren't affected by it are still trying to convince the people who are that it's all in their heads.

If other people want to buy into that level of intellectual dishonesty, they are welcome to do that, but I'm not a member of that team; I prefer to think for myself.

 

[rudebwoy]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/world/oprah-winfrey-racism-switzerland/

Happened to Oprah, but I guess they don't get her show in Switzerland.

Not that it should matter!

 

[Samseau]

That's right, this is Samseau. Stormfront Samseau giving the benefit of the doubt to a situation he only hears about through the news and it turns out to be right.

The people who accused me of racism the loudest incidentally revealed their own racism quite clearly. In this thread they were angry with me for not condemning someone of "racial profiling" when in fact the cops were called regardless of the man's color, as Wastelander shows. Because someone wouldn't start howling about the imaginary White Supremacist threat and considered that there could be other causes or simply a case of mistaken identity.

Yeah, because a self-serving statement filled with unverifiable information and plausible deniability made after the fact completely washes their hands of the incident.

It's not just plausible deniability. Have you ever bought and sold cars before? When you have dealer plates cops will pull you over all the time. Many small town cops do not recognize dealer plates and pull them over just to make sure the vehicle is legal. My father, who is a dealer, has had this happened to him dozens and dozens of times while delivering vehicles to clients.

Again, they did not even know if the driver was White or Black. The fact that people jump to accusations of racism without knowing anything is utterly destructive to America's social fabric and only increases hostilities. People need to be more generous to others and stop assuming evil intentions of others by default (unless they're muslim [Ed: This is a joke!]).

Without knowing all the facts of the situation, it is always best not to become too committed to any explanation. Stay calm, stay rational.

 

[rudebwoy]

Dude your arguments are weak, please stop.

 

[TigerMandingo]

I hope you lot saying that he should dress better to avoid racially profiling should also look at instances where a white guy shows up in a store dressed like a bummy farmer from Idaho or Utah with overalls and a straw in his mouth saying "Arrh".

What if a white guy that look like Hank Hill's neighbours (Boomhower or Bill) show up there? By your rationale, they should also receive discriminatory treatment. As far as I'm concerned, those guys also represent a lower tier of society (if one is to apply the same litmus test). I wager however, that they will get benefit of the doubt.

You are correct, they will get the benefit of the doubt. Partially because Idaho farmers aren't committing 50% of the nation's violent crimes.

 

[R Smoov]

EL Chapo - what you fail to realize that store probably wouldn't have let you in either.

I've noticed a number of his other posts and likes of other posts, so I'm not surprised by his point of view as it pertains to this discussion. Before I would have taken the time to drop the napalm, but at this point of the game, I've reached a certain level, so I'll just leave it at the fact that I've observed.

What are you surprised by?

I as a Black man want to see fellow Blacks leave this degenerate rap and hip-hop culture that has plagued our communities. I want Black people to appreciate what they have by knowing what true hard work really is like instead of adopting this gangster thug culture that has destroyed our image and our communities where we have embraced criminality and violence. We are never going to be taken seriously until we leave that gangster culture and become serious about our lives.

Image is everything in America. But if we're going to sit here and tell Black people and coddle and say "hey its ok, you can dress how you want to dress and everything will be ok," we will be doing huge damage to our kids. No one is going to hire them with all of that baggage.


I'm looking out for Black folks. I want them to do well! I'm probably looking out for them more than many of you.

I haven't been on this forum a lot, but bruh you've said as a Black man like 40 times.

We get it.

 

[Moma]

I hope you lot saying that he should dress better to avoid racially profiling should also look at instances where a white guy shows up in a store dressed like a bummy farmer from Idaho or Utah with overalls and a straw in his mouth saying "Arrh".

What if a white guy that look like Hank Hill's neighbours (Boomhower or Bill) show up there? By your rationale, they should also receive discriminatory treatment. As far as I'm concerned, those guys also represent a lower tier of society (if one is to apply the same litmus test). I wager however, that they will get benefit of the doubt.

You are correct, they will get the benefit of the doubt. Partially because Idaho farmers aren't committing 50% of the nation's violent crimes.

If half of the nation's violent crimes are being committed by seven foot tall black men then who are committing the other half?

 

[JacksonRev]

I hope you lot saying that he should dress better to avoid racially profiling should also look at instances where a white guy shows up in a store dressed like a bummy farmer from Idaho or Utah with overalls and a straw in his mouth saying "Arrh".

What if a white guy that look like Hank Hill's neighbours (Boomhower or Bill) show up there? By your rationale, they should also receive discriminatory treatment. As far as I'm concerned, those guys also represent a lower tier of society (if one is to apply the same litmus test). I wager however, that they will get benefit of the doubt.

You are correct, they will get the benefit of the doubt. Partially because Idaho farmers aren't committing 50% of the nation's violent crimes.

If half of the nation's violent crimes are being committed by seven foot tall black men then who are committing the other half?

 

[blck]

EL Chapo - what you fail to realize that store probably wouldn't have let you in either.

I've noticed a number of his other posts and likes of other posts, so I'm not surprised by his point of view as it pertains to this discussion. Before I would have taken the time to drop the napalm, but at this point of the game, I've reached a certain level, so I'll just leave it at the fact that I've observed.

What are you surprised by?

I as a Black man want to see fellow Blacks leave this degenerate rap and hip-hop culture that has plagued our communities. I want Black people to appreciate what they have by knowing what true hard work really is like instead of adopting this gangster thug culture that has destroyed our image and our communities where we have embraced criminality and violence. We are never going to be taken seriously until we leave that gangster culture and become serious about our lives.

Image is everything in America. But if we're going to sit here and tell Black people and coddle and say "hey its ok, you can dress how you want to dress and everything will be ok," we will be doing huge damage to our kids. No one is going to hire them with all of that baggage.

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I'm looking out for Black folks. I want them to do well! I'm probably looking out for them more than many of you.

Come on dude, you really think you can fight all those shit by yourself ? And by preaching on a forum ?

 

[Samseau]

Dude your arguments are weak, please stop.

Yet the hypocritical irony of this statement is that I gave you a response and you reply with a one-sentence non-response.