Social media has brought a world of wonder into our eyes and ears. We’re learning about things we never would have known existed otherwise. Just open up Twitter or TikTok, and you can get a social sampler platter in five minutes including tranny men in heels asking if they pass as a woman, irritating 19-year-old liberal women with enough metal in their faces to kill a PET scan operator, or, occasionally, wholesome shorts about how best to knock down dominoes with Legos.
One of the most popular genres of social media videos you might call “I’m Black And I Ain’t Do Nuffin’.” The behavior will be familiar to parents who’ve had to break up the “I’m not touching you” game in the back seat of a car. Remember how you used to torment your sister by putting your fingers right next to her on the seat and when she complained, you’d say “I’m not touching you!”?
Except in these videos, the black Americans are doing much more than annoying a sibling. Most of the videos depict a confrontation in a retail store, or a traffic stop. What generally happens: Some black patron in a store behaves rudely or suspiciously, and they absolutely refuse to leave under any circumstances. They won’t leave when the manager tells them to. They won’t leave when the police are called and order them out of the store. All the while, they play toddler games. They pretend they don’t know why they were asked to leave, they repeat the same sentences over and over again (‘Why you arresting me? Why you arresting me?’ etc.), apparently thinking that being irritating is going to make the cops just walk away.
Here’s a typical such video, with a typical ending featuring arrest and handcuffs:
Transportation themes are often featured. In this example, a black woman who had parked her car at an airport, took a trip, and when she returned, she would not pay the attendant the $144 fee she racked up. Oh, the customer claimed that she was going to pay, and that people just needed to give her a minute. But she was just trying inartfully to distract the attendant, and later the cops, from the fact that she was going to try to make a break for it and drive off.
The video picks up once the cops are there. The woman pretends she can’t understand a simple command to put her car in ‘park.’ She leaves it in neutral, apparently in hopes that her car would roll over the officer’s foot. It escalates from there. You have to watch a few minutes to believe the gall this woman displayed.
Happily, the offender was arrested, but only after wasting 40 minutes of police time. You wonder why the cops put up with it for ⅔ of an hour instead of hauling her right to jail. Oh, that’s right–enforcing the law against black Americans often results in fake claims of racist abuse that the police have to deal with.
Let’s see what the public thinks.
Of course, there are always a few people who play the “but she’s not touching him!” game, and claim that enforcing the law is severe and so unjust!
It’s the cop’s fault, see? He should have spent 60 minutes instead of just 40 “de-escalating.”
