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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    HOW do they have this opportunity, unless they pull their children entirely out of society?
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    If more people paid attention to what goes on around them, they'd be more like me. I watched my brother reach the age of 15 before he could read in a school system where I once overheard teachers talking about how they shouldn't bother working extra with a first nations girl who was struggling because she was just going to get pregnant and drop out. My brother and I didn't pass as white as children and I can only wonder if the reason why the teachers ignored my mother's pleas to help him were because of the colour of our skin. He was, after all, a child with documented delays, who had come into the school system without any speech yet at the age of four and then once he learned to talk with speech therapy, they declared him caught up and that everything was fine. Instead, it took until he was 15 for them to listen to my mother.
    It's not the same, I know. I get to put my white privilege on as a costume and take it off when I want, but I've seen the other side and it makes me understand better (though I will never understand fully) what you go through.
    All I know is that my white wife will be the biological parent of our children, with a white sperm donor, for their safety.
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    Not a Tailor reacted to Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    My kids don't go to the playground, the store, nowhere without me. And yes, it's because I am afraid someone will get them or they will get shot for no reason. The only thing I let them do is go to the pool which is right under my nose. And if we pulled over by the police we automatically put our hands in the air.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    If more people paid attention to what goes on around them, they'd be more like me. I watched my brother reach the age of 15 before he could read in a school system where I once overheard teachers talking about how they shouldn't bother working extra with a first nations girl who was struggling because she was just going to get pregnant and drop out. My brother and I didn't pass as white as children and I can only wonder if the reason why the teachers ignored my mother's pleas to help him were because of the colour of our skin. He was, after all, a child with documented delays, who had come into the school system without any speech yet at the age of four and then once he learned to talk with speech therapy, they declared him caught up and that everything was fine. Instead, it took until he was 15 for them to listen to my mother.
    It's not the same, I know. I get to put my white privilege on as a costume and take it off when I want, but I've seen the other side and it makes me understand better (though I will never understand fully) what you go through.
    All I know is that my white wife will be the biological parent of our children, with a white sperm donor, for their safety.
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    Not a Tailor reacted to We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    She came outside after I took some trash out from her house. She said my name loudly because she thought something had happened to me. After being in Honolulu, I'd forgotten that being black in a neighborhood at night can be fatal...
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    So much metaphor in comics. So much. It's amazing. Malcolm X and MLK if I'm not mistaken? And correct me if I'm remembering wrong. I drifted largely to Avengers over time and my x-men knowledge has started leaking out because of it. #wherearethebradleys
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    Not a Tailor reacted to Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    Thanks NAT. If more awesome people like you were out here things would improve a lot quicker than the turtle crawl people call progression.
    I want them to just be kids too. Every parent should want this for their children. To teach hate at such a young age stripes away their child hood and the sense of being a kid.
    You also have to be scared for your friends too. Marv will tell you. It frightened me for him to take walks around my neighbor or to the store without me being present. There are not many minorities out here where I live and I didn't want someone to mistake him as a criminal instead of someone visiting a friend.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    The only way for a clean slate would be to live in absentia of society and you can't do that. Your kids shouldn't have to deal with that BS. They shouldn't have that scar. They should get to be just kids, doing kid stuff, not being held responsible for the colour of their skin. I'm so sorry.
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    Not a Tailor reacted to We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    When TM happened, my mother wanted me to burn every hoodie I had. I refused. I told her what I wear is not going to be dictated by some overzealous neighborhood watch volunteer. The police can treat us anyway we want, because they've been caught on camera beating or killing us, and they still won't go to jail. There's zero empathy for black people as a whole, and it's disturbing that a kid can go in and murder 9 church going elderly black people and the judge says the murderer's parents are the victims.
    Our parents have to give us "the Talk", and trust me it's not just about the birds and the bees.
    http://gawker.com/what-black-parents-tell-their-sons-about-the-police-1624412625
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    The only way for a clean slate would be to live in absentia of society and you can't do that. Your kids shouldn't have to deal with that BS. They shouldn't have that scar. They should get to be just kids, doing kid stuff, not being held responsible for the colour of their skin. I'm so sorry.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    I'm not stretching.
    When parents are inundated with STRANGERS WILL STEAL YOUR CHILDREN! THEY ARE ON EVERY STREET CORNER, LURKING WITH THEIR HARD GENITALS AND CANDY AND KNIVES! then parents parent according to the fear that they experience based on that. They hover over their children, make sure the doors are always locked, make sure they know every moment of their child's day so nothing can happen. Those children grow up and the parenting influences that they have taught them that you must watch your children. They see messages that you MUST BE INVOLVED WITH YOUR CHILDREN OR THEY WILL NEVER GET JOBS AND GET INTO COLLEGE and they become extreme helicopter parents, even accompanying their children to job interviews.
    Parents parent based on societal pressures. Look at what happens to so called free range parenting movements--they get arrested and their children get collected by police to force them to fit the helicopter model.
    Now, I was raised by white people. I can't say for sure what the pressures facing black parents are, but I can imagine them (and please, Janelle and Marvin, correct any inaccuracies so I can learn!). I imagine that when black parents see black kids getting shot for going to the corner store wearing a hoodie, they teach their children not to wear hoodies and to make sure they stay in the light with their hands out in the open. They try to teach their sons to do exactly what a police officer says even while they lay awake at night worrying that their child won't live to go to bed tomorrow because all a police officer has to say is 'the kid went for my gun' and they'll be backed up on that. When they've seen the effects on their families and communities of medical experimentation on people of colour, when they've been misdiagnosed because doctors miss symptoms they'd see in a heartbeat in a white person, they tell their kids to try and find a doctor of colour because they'll get substandard care from a white doctor.
    A household is not outside of society, it is part of it and subject to its pressures.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    I'm not stretching.
    When parents are inundated with STRANGERS WILL STEAL YOUR CHILDREN! THEY ARE ON EVERY STREET CORNER, LURKING WITH THEIR HARD GENITALS AND CANDY AND KNIVES! then parents parent according to the fear that they experience based on that. They hover over their children, make sure the doors are always locked, make sure they know every moment of their child's day so nothing can happen. Those children grow up and the parenting influences that they have taught them that you must watch your children. They see messages that you MUST BE INVOLVED WITH YOUR CHILDREN OR THEY WILL NEVER GET JOBS AND GET INTO COLLEGE and they become extreme helicopter parents, even accompanying their children to job interviews.
    Parents parent based on societal pressures. Look at what happens to so called free range parenting movements--they get arrested and their children get collected by police to force them to fit the helicopter model.
    Now, I was raised by white people. I can't say for sure what the pressures facing black parents are, but I can imagine them (and please, Janelle and Marvin, correct any inaccuracies so I can learn!). I imagine that when black parents see black kids getting shot for going to the corner store wearing a hoodie, they teach their children not to wear hoodies and to make sure they stay in the light with their hands out in the open. They try to teach their sons to do exactly what a police officer says even while they lay awake at night worrying that their child won't live to go to bed tomorrow because all a police officer has to say is 'the kid went for my gun' and they'll be backed up on that. When they've seen the effects on their families and communities of medical experimentation on people of colour, when they've been misdiagnosed because doctors miss symptoms they'd see in a heartbeat in a white person, they tell their kids to try and find a doctor of colour because they'll get substandard care from a white doctor.
    A household is not outside of society, it is part of it and subject to its pressures.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    I'm sorry your kids get this #######, Janelle. I know you're doing your best and I know that the cards are stacked against you and it's not fair. I hope things get better as they get older and the future lets them trust.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    I'm sorry your kids get this #######, Janelle. I know you're doing your best and I know that the cards are stacked against you and it's not fair. I hope things get better as they get older and the future lets them trust.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    What the hell does his father have to do with it?
    Marvin is a good man. Marvin is a clean cut man. Marvin has experienced police brutality. These are the facts. His father has all to do with it. Stick to the facts.
    If Marvin is clean cut, if Marvin is a good man, if Marvin treats others with respect, if Marvin looks after his children, if Marvin is at college after military service, then why has Marvin experienced police brutality? The police don't know Marvin's parents, they see Marvin.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    So you are saying, then, that children never leave the home and the parents' decisions happen in absentia of societal pressures, biases and ideals? Where does this family live? In an off the grid homestead a thousand miles from anyone in the outback of Australia?
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    What the hell does his father have to do with it?
    Marvin is a good man. Marvin is a clean cut man. Marvin has experienced police brutality. These are the facts. His father has all to do with it. Stick to the facts.
    If Marvin is clean cut, if Marvin is a good man, if Marvin treats others with respect, if Marvin looks after his children, if Marvin is at college after military service, then why has Marvin experienced police brutality? The police don't know Marvin's parents, they see Marvin.
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    Not a Tailor reacted to We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    What fresh start are you talking about Darnell?
    I'm a black man who doesn't have a criminal background, pays his taxes, and generally acts like I have some sense and manners. And you know what? I STILL get asked if I'm ghetto. Or that I steal from my loved ones. Or the look on people's faces when I say I in college working on my degree. I'm retired from the military, clean cut, and work for the federal government, and I still can't shake it. I have to go out of the way and talk so polite to disarm strangers because the first thing they think is I'm going to be loud and angry. My sons are biracial, they're not even completely black, and I have to console them when the kids at their school make fun of them for having a black father.
    We have black movie stars who are pulled over by the police like their common criminals, black men and women being killed by each other and the cops at record numbers, and a black president who a nice amount of people don't even think he's an American. We can't wear hoodies. We have to wear suits and ties just to go to the store. We have to work 10 times as hard just to be considered equal. And if we fail, we can't use it as an excuse. We get killed and it's our fault for being out at night, asking questions, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
    Being black is a crime within itself. Look it up, we're the most hated race on the planet. And for what? I still can't figure it out. We haven't committed mass genocide like Hitler, Pol Pot, or even the folks that "found" this country. We haven't stolen anyone's land or invaded another country like when Japan was cutting a swath across China and Korea. Even the people in Europe that are dark skinned refuse to identify as black. It's an insult to them.
    I have yet to see this fresh start...
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    Not a Tailor reacted to We Keep Receipts in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    I think 10 years isn't enough time. You're dealing with decades upon decades of issues.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from CarlosAndSveta in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    I love it. White people create a culture of poverty for decades that of course creates crime, arrests and imprisons young black males for crimes that young white males would not get arrested or imprisoned for, then use that to justify OH NO THE SCARY BLACK MAN WILL GET ME! And then blame the young black men who get arrested for destroying a black community that was in shambles since its inception due to the fact that from day ONE, black people who were free were viewed as criminals since it was even odds whether they were freed or if they were escaped--meaning they might have stolen themselves from their masters.
    White people created the fear of black young men just as white people created the justified fear that people of colour have in North America of white people in positions of medical authority. For more information, take a quick peek at the nutritional experimentation done in Canada on First Nations children in the fifties. Look at Tuskegee. Look at the grand experimentation that Nestle pulled in taking powdered formula to countries inhabited by people of colour who did not have clean drinking water and convincing them the milk from their brown bosoms was not safe for their babies, killing off hundreds or thousands of African and Indian babies while these white health authorities told the other people that they knew better.
    Tuskegee is not isolated. Tuskegee is simply a well known instance of violent experimentation that has gone on from European and North American white health authorities against people of colour all over the world.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from We Keep Receipts in Stan Lee Sued by Ex-Assistant for Alleged ‘Malicious,’ ‘Oppressive’ Treatment   
    Stan Lee is a very profit driven old man. He's never been, from what I've heard, an easy man to work with or a good one to work for. There have been a lot of feuds and artists who have moved back and forth between DC and Marvel due to feuds between the artist and Lee. I love Marvel, don't love Lee, though I do appreciate some of the innovative things he did and some of the risks he took back in the day that made comics what they are now.
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    Not a Tailor got a reaction from Janelle2002 in Drop In Black Men In Medical School Will Have Alarming Affects On Community Health   
    I love it. White people create a culture of poverty for decades that of course creates crime, arrests and imprisons young black males for crimes that young white males would not get arrested or imprisoned for, then use that to justify OH NO THE SCARY BLACK MAN WILL GET ME! And then blame the young black men who get arrested for destroying a black community that was in shambles since its inception due to the fact that from day ONE, black people who were free were viewed as criminals since it was even odds whether they were freed or if they were escaped--meaning they might have stolen themselves from their masters.
    White people created the fear of black young men just as white people created the justified fear that people of colour have in North America of white people in positions of medical authority. For more information, take a quick peek at the nutritional experimentation done in Canada on First Nations children in the fifties. Look at Tuskegee. Look at the grand experimentation that Nestle pulled in taking powdered formula to countries inhabited by people of colour who did not have clean drinking water and convincing them the milk from their brown bosoms was not safe for their babies, killing off hundreds or thousands of African and Indian babies while these white health authorities told the other people that they knew better.
    Tuskegee is not isolated. Tuskegee is simply a well known instance of violent experimentation that has gone on from European and North American white health authorities against people of colour all over the world.
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