The Wingnuts Take an Art Walk
Here’s a different point of view of what happen last Friday during the art walk from Mo Karn and her fellow Wingnuts (Their term, not mine). After an initial confrontation with the cops, here’s some of what they reported.
Trailing various pairs of piggies (Cops), we watched as they told almost every group of black teens they encountered that they had to keep moving on the sidewalk so that people could get by. I had a hard time distinguishing how those teens were any more of an obstruction than the various booths, vendors, or other people (stationary or mobile) on the sidewalk. Or how the groups of white teens who they let stay were any more important, had any more right to the sidewalk. What was easy to distinguish was the difference between who was being harassed and who wasn’t. I saw not one white person (besides copwatchers) being told by police to move, bothered about where they were standing, asked what they were doing.
It was very clear that the function of police at this point was to facilitate white people’s enjoyment of the art walk by isolating them in their own privileged culture, from the culture of people who comprise the majority of inhabitants of the area, and for that matter, of Richmond.
There’s lots more where this came from.
Perhaps it is because the white people weren’t causing the problems? Nawww…that wouldn’t be it would it?!?!?
These crazy wingnuts are another thing that’s wrong with this city.
The cops are not pigs by the way, they should be commended for trying to keep the peace and facilitate a First Friday event that doesn’t end in mayhem.
Not all black people were causing problems, but all the problems were being caused by black people. It is what it is…
#2 agreed…I could have said what I said a bit better…
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Well said Rebecca!
If it taked “profiling” to combat this, so be it.
These wingnuts people dp nothing to help sotuation like this. They do these things to provoke a response and it sickens me that they don’t beliece that they are part of the problem.
[...] following is abridged version. Portions dealing with the Copwatch activities were already covered here and are mostly not included in this article. Excerpts are in the order they were written [...]
Hey Mo how many times have you given the middle finger to the police? So some respect to people that are trying protect us from people like you.
With all those guns in your house and all poop stirring you and friends do in the neighborhood, it only a matter of time when you going to be on the phone crying for the police to come to protect you.