anyone living in NYC over the past 10 years or so knows this has clearly been the case. It really shouldnt come as a shock to anyone that the NYPD was/is targeting minority men for stop and frisk as a bit of psychological warfare. Is that fukked up? Obviously it is.
But like I said in the last thread, if youre living in the real world, where life isn't fair, then you knew there were ways you could distance yourself from the stereo typical minority male that was being targeted. Some dudes maybe had too much pride for that, and wanted to be uncompromising, and they likely felt more pressure from the NYPD as a result.
It wasn't a problem for me, once I reached a certain age, to disassociate myself from that element of the community who is aimless and idle, and prone to get caught up in fukkery. Again is this something that I'm happy about? Hell no. But at the same time, do I feel safer walking certain places at certain hours now, that I wouldn't have felt as safe before. Yes! Is it because of stop and frisk? Who knows. But I know dudes who I've grown up with or whatever, who are pretty much living that idle life or hanging out on the street and getting wrapped up in street shyt, and you can obviously see their heightened sense of caution and self-awareness due to the police presence. The police are clearly trying to intimidate. Its a fight for control of the streets.
I'm not living in a fantasy. I can face the fact that, for one, certain communities weren't doing a very good job of policing themselves. And there is a racial element to it, no doubt, but again, if the community can't police itself, and you have little aimless fukkheads robbing every hipster in sigh for their iphones, etc... and the community itself can't recognize that those little pieces of shyt are gonna fukk the community up for every one else, dudes like me who just wanted to be able to smoke a joint on the corner in peace can no longer do so. Who do I blame? We already know how the police get down. So I look to those idle ignorant nikkas who do dumb shyt and fukk up the whole community.
