A blogger asked, "Who would be taken more seriously if a Black man and a white woman were seen arguing?".
Her assumption was that the white woman would be given preferential treatment.
But this whole thinking is wrong-headed.
This thinking assumes that most Black people are violent or breaking one law or another at all times.
Who would be given the benefit of the doubt - A Hell's Angel beating up a white woman or a Black guy buying a news paper from a white woman at a convenience store?
I don't know about the blogger's experience, but I'm not in the habit of robbing, raping or killing women.
I don't walk around starting fights with arbitrary white women.
Is it 'Priviledge' to assume that everyone Black is always plotting about how to harm someone white?
Or is this blogger just projecting her own racist views onto everyone else?
In reality, most people don't care about such things.
Most people go about their lives trying to make life better for themselves and their families.
While most Black people are aware of race but most Black people are not fixated on it - we just have other things to do.
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