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Am I the only one who saw this comment on a post via Roungup about US laws allowing seizure and copying from electronic devices? The comment talks about asking for a supervisor and threatening to sue and claiming to have the individuals on camera.
And my first thought was - "Yeah, you can do that - if you're white."
Am I just jaded?
Cause seriously my first thought is, someone brown, or black, gold or red who's stopped in a US airport and has their phone, laptop or mp3 player demanded for sieizure (for copying, for looking, whatever) who then starts, while being polite and even toned, making trouble - their ass is grass.
Didn't they think a Hawaiian girl with an LED on her shirt was a suicide bomber? Didn't they point guns at her and pin her to the floor? Have we heard anything else about that MIT girl who got an up front and brutal look at how you get treated if you're brown and Airport Security pounces you?
Is it because I'm currently extra stressed about what I'll be doing/living/happening to me next month that I just found myself thinking ' - You and I live in two different Americas.
And yeah, I'm not commenting to the post because this is just me going 'Wow - my pov. Wow'. Not gonna start nothing so they won't be nothing. The OP's thoughts on having as clean as possible a laptop until things get sorted out with the law, make sense to me. And I also ponder the economic influences to something that could make people leave behind their Personal Media Players, Portable Game Players, MP3/4 players etc. And phones are becoming more and more multi-capable.
But the thread of conversation there just brought up the thought of Two Americas. And in mine, a sickly infant suffers complications and dies because he and his mother are brown. His mother's Samoan even though he's American. And air port security kept mother, infant and nurse in an unventilated hot room so someone with higher authority COULD show up to deal with them.
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Scheduled Emergency Therapy Session - Friday at 10am.
I can hold out till Friday - maybe.
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| 2008-05-28 19:28 |
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3am realizations at 7pm at night.
I thought Batman was black, because Earth Kitt was the 'good Catwoman' and she was black. Therefore the goofy Batman on tv was white and the good Batman in the comics had to be the black one.
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Update on me = Saner. Little calmer. Desperately Hungry. Figuring out food sources.
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