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"Freedom to not like someone."

Are we really free to not like someone?

Say if you just don't like someone because they annoy you, and that person happens to be from a different ethnic background to you - how many people that you know would think you were being racist?

Try to include the black in the convo, just to be PC

I'm black, so i'm the victim here.

Woo.

Ms NY wrote:
> Yeah, I'm extremely sick Marcini. But what kind? I dunno!

Specimen B maybe?

Chippxero wrote:
> Sure you say that now but what is he poked you by accident.

Well then I'd die.. duh!

Yeah, I'm extremely sick Marcini. But what kind? I dunno!

Ms NY wrote:
> black, friend, huge, little poke

What kind of sick person are you

Ms NY wrote:
> Woah.. Seems a few of you have met horrible black people!
> I've got a black friend who's a huge guy and looks like he could kill
> you with a little poke, but is the most harmless, friendly guy
> I ever met.

Sure you say that now but what is he poked you by accident.

A year or 2 ago one of my mates was randomly stoped and asked to empty his pockets by some cops in london, he had a bit of weed on him and they took him to the station, he was put in the back of a van and it was full of white guys one of the cops even said they had stopped them all because they need to keep their ratio of white to black arrests up.

Woah.. Seems a few of you have met horrible black people!
I've got a black friend who's a huge guy and looks like he could kill you with a little poke, but is the most harmless, friendly guy I ever met.

Most frustrating thing when I was in the police was the "race card". Here follows two examples:

1) Lady driving at 6am in the dark with one headlight not working at all and her fog-lights on. Both these things are offences considering that it was not foggy.
I stopped her and spoke with her. I pointed out the two offences and said that because it was clearly unintentional I would only issue her with a vehicle document producer, (HORT1), because she couldn't produce them to me at the road side, (another offence), and a vehicle defect rectification scheme ticket, (VDRS), to make sure she got the headlight fixed.

She started crying and said, "are you doing this to me because I'm Asian?"

This really annoyed me. I kept my cool and explained the reasons for doing what I'd done and pointed out that she was actually liable for two £30 tickets, (although we can only give one at a time), and so she could have actually been taken to court for both offences. I said that I was issuing the HORT1 to make sure she had her documents and the VDRS to make sure her vehicle was road-worthy.

That got me in a bad mood to start a day though.

2) My mate nicked a well known burglar coming out of a house his hands full of electrical goods. Put to the floor by us both and cuffed he then screached, "you're only doing this to me because I'm Welsh!" My mate just said, "no, we're doing this because you're a burglar."

That didn't annoy me, I just found it funny.

I've only properly known three black people in my life and all of them have been up themselves. And two out of them have claimed I insulted them racially to cause trouble.

It's like a get out of jail free card.