Secretive App Tracks Blacks in Rich White Areas
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Rakim Allah
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These apps aren't just being used in rich white area. Also areas being gentrified.
Phone Apps Used To Promote Systematic White Racism Is On The Rise |
Phone Apps Used To Promote Systematic White Racism Is On The Rise
October 14, 2015Crime and Justice, RacismAfrican American, American African, Black American, Black Community,Black People, Black Society, Georgetown, GhettoTracker, Melanoid, Melanoid Nation, Nextdoor App, Operation GroupMe,Racial Profiling, Racist, Washington D.C., White SupremacyMelanoid Nation
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In the technological age, racial profiling is taking on an entirely new form. In the ever-increasing usage of smart devices such as phones and tablets, there seems to be apps for everything. As a follow-up to last week’s story involving the Bay Area (CA)’s Nextdoor app, new apps have appeared that are being used to profile Black people as well.
In places like Washington, D.C. and New York City, apps such as SketchFactor (an app used to report “sketchy” people) and GhettoTracker.com are gaining traction with users. With these applications, Black people are being reported at an alarming rate. With GhettoTracker.com, users of the online platform are asked to rate neighborhoods based on whether they feel that the areas are “safe” or “ghetto”.
In Washington, a movement titled “Operation GroupMe” has become prevalent in the Georgetown area of D.C. It was created last February out of Georgetown Business Improvement District’s partnership with the local police to initiate “real-time mobile-based group-messaging app that connects Georgetown businesses, police officers and community members.” The app has nearly 400 users who racially profile countless innocent Black people.
The white supremacists of these online communities even communicate with each other in code, referring to Melanoid people as “aa”–an abbreviation for African-American. It has been reported that hundreds of photos of unsuspecting Black people have been shared in these groups. On one occasion, a Black female employee of retailer American Apparel (wearing orange) took a selfie with an unsuspecting shopper in the background with a caption that read: “Look out for these girls. Known thefts.” After another user commented on the employee’s selfie, stating that “Only known thieves would smile for the camera.” The actual manager of the store left a following comment that read, “Yea, not to be confused, girl in orange is our employee.”
One of the more alarming facts surrounding this issue is that these apps are being implemented in U.S. metropolitan areas (Bay Area, D.C., New York) that are being notoriously gentrified, with suspected white supremacists new to these areas reacting out of paranoia of contrived Black threats to their neighborhoods.
Phone Apps Used To Promote Systematic White Racism Is On The Rise |
Phone Apps Used To Promote Systematic White Racism Is On The Rise
October 14, 2015Crime and Justice, RacismAfrican American, American African, Black American, Black Community,Black People, Black Society, Georgetown, GhettoTracker, Melanoid, Melanoid Nation, Nextdoor App, Operation GroupMe,Racial Profiling, Racist, Washington D.C., White SupremacyMelanoid Nation
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In the technological age, racial profiling is taking on an entirely new form. In the ever-increasing usage of smart devices such as phones and tablets, there seems to be apps for everything. As a follow-up to last week’s story involving the Bay Area (CA)’s Nextdoor app, new apps have appeared that are being used to profile Black people as well.
In places like Washington, D.C. and New York City, apps such as SketchFactor (an app used to report “sketchy” people) and GhettoTracker.com are gaining traction with users. With these applications, Black people are being reported at an alarming rate. With GhettoTracker.com, users of the online platform are asked to rate neighborhoods based on whether they feel that the areas are “safe” or “ghetto”.
In Washington, a movement titled “Operation GroupMe” has become prevalent in the Georgetown area of D.C. It was created last February out of Georgetown Business Improvement District’s partnership with the local police to initiate “real-time mobile-based group-messaging app that connects Georgetown businesses, police officers and community members.” The app has nearly 400 users who racially profile countless innocent Black people.
The white supremacists of these online communities even communicate with each other in code, referring to Melanoid people as “aa”–an abbreviation for African-American. It has been reported that hundreds of photos of unsuspecting Black people have been shared in these groups. On one occasion, a Black female employee of retailer American Apparel (wearing orange) took a selfie with an unsuspecting shopper in the background with a caption that read: “Look out for these girls. Known thefts.” After another user commented on the employee’s selfie, stating that “Only known thieves would smile for the camera.” The actual manager of the store left a following comment that read, “Yea, not to be confused, girl in orange is our employee.”
One of the more alarming facts surrounding this issue is that these apps are being implemented in U.S. metropolitan areas (Bay Area, D.C., New York) that are being notoriously gentrified, with suspected white supremacists new to these areas reacting out of paranoia of contrived Black threats to their neighborhoods.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
White Supremacy? There’s An App For That. |
White Supremacy? There’s An App For That.
October 9, 2015Racism, SocietyBay Area, Cali, California, East Bay, Gentrification, Nextdoor App, Oakland, racism,White SupremacyMelanoid Nation
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OAKLAND, CA — This Bay Area city in California was once known for being a proud hub of Black culture, as it was also had a reputation of being one of the United States’ “Chocolate Cities”.
Today, it seems that Oakland–in conjunction with the natural effects that time causes–has changed drastically.
As suspected white supremacists continue to move into the area, many of them have resorted to being part of an online community, ran by nextdoor.com. The website, which was developed in nearby San Francisco in 2010, has seen a sharp uptick in usage of the web platform. 176 neighborhoods (and 20 percent of all households in the city) in Oakland have groups registered on Nextdoor. The site, which is known as “the private social network for neighborhoods”, allows people to report “suspicious activity.”
Of course, much of the reporting on Nextdoor involves reporting innocent Black people as being suspects for merely engaging in non-criminal/pedestrian activity, such as walking down the street. Many of the area’s Black door-to-door sales reps and mailmen have been labeled as “suspects”, according to the online company.
White members of Nextdoor have used the site to call the police and file complaints about Black residents nearby, which includes being “too noisy” at public parks and bars. Mitsu Fisher, a Black father of two, isn’t allowing his kids to play outside or roam the neighborhood free without his presence. The concern stems from a February 2014 incident in which a patrol officer working for a private security company chased down and shot a young Black teenage boy. To make matters worse, the private security company that the race soldier worked for forbids their officers from carrying firearms. As a result of shooting the Black teen, the officer was rewarded by white members of Nextdoor.com and local neighborhood groups on Yahoo, with all of them collaborating to buy him a gift.
One Black Oakland native by the name of Leland Thompson has grown so weary of the rampant racism in theses local Internet groups that he has decided to stop wearing hoodies. After regularly browsing “Glenfriends”, a Yahoo group created by the Glenview (in Oakland) neighborhood residents, he has discovered that an overwhelming amount of the “suspicious activity” reports in the group described him. “Black man, five-ten, 160 pounds, bald,” Mr. Thompson says in reference to the typical descriptions given in the “Glenfriends” Yahoo group.
For more on this story, follow this link.
B. Clark
White Supremacy? There’s An App For That.
October 9, 2015Racism, SocietyBay Area, Cali, California, East Bay, Gentrification, Nextdoor App, Oakland, racism,White SupremacyMelanoid Nation
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OAKLAND, CA — This Bay Area city in California was once known for being a proud hub of Black culture, as it was also had a reputation of being one of the United States’ “Chocolate Cities”.
Today, it seems that Oakland–in conjunction with the natural effects that time causes–has changed drastically.
As suspected white supremacists continue to move into the area, many of them have resorted to being part of an online community, ran by nextdoor.com. The website, which was developed in nearby San Francisco in 2010, has seen a sharp uptick in usage of the web platform. 176 neighborhoods (and 20 percent of all households in the city) in Oakland have groups registered on Nextdoor. The site, which is known as “the private social network for neighborhoods”, allows people to report “suspicious activity.”
Of course, much of the reporting on Nextdoor involves reporting innocent Black people as being suspects for merely engaging in non-criminal/pedestrian activity, such as walking down the street. Many of the area’s Black door-to-door sales reps and mailmen have been labeled as “suspects”, according to the online company.
White members of Nextdoor have used the site to call the police and file complaints about Black residents nearby, which includes being “too noisy” at public parks and bars. Mitsu Fisher, a Black father of two, isn’t allowing his kids to play outside or roam the neighborhood free without his presence. The concern stems from a February 2014 incident in which a patrol officer working for a private security company chased down and shot a young Black teenage boy. To make matters worse, the private security company that the race soldier worked for forbids their officers from carrying firearms. As a result of shooting the Black teen, the officer was rewarded by white members of Nextdoor.com and local neighborhood groups on Yahoo, with all of them collaborating to buy him a gift.
One Black Oakland native by the name of Leland Thompson has grown so weary of the rampant racism in theses local Internet groups that he has decided to stop wearing hoodies. After regularly browsing “Glenfriends”, a Yahoo group created by the Glenview (in Oakland) neighborhood residents, he has discovered that an overwhelming amount of the “suspicious activity” reports in the group described him. “Black man, five-ten, 160 pounds, bald,” Mr. Thompson says in reference to the typical descriptions given in the “Glenfriends” Yahoo group.
For more on this story, follow this link.
B. Clark
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
This is interesting I was linked by a black man to get on NextDoor a few weeks ago. Where I'm at in Houston is gradually gentrifying. I didn't think much of it, but now I see the "extreme" use of this type of forum... 
Rakim Allah
Superstar
Fight fire with fire. Get on these apps and start reporting these "suspicious" cacs.
Powdered Toast Man
styll
You all would be surprised and some shocked at what these devils got under their sleeves and working on behind the scenes....why I keep tellin folk, stay away from these crackas.....it should tell one something that "Integration" don't work and they never meant for it to work, other than as a trick to stymie the revolutionary tide we were on back in the 60's......this is why they move out when we move in....then they come and create and instigate black on black crime and then re gentrify "black" areas..........
they say people who think evil are always a step ahead, because as you're just trying to live your own life, they're thinking of ways against you.
it may not be an absolute because of course you can be well witted and not be taken advantage of, but there is a ton of truth in that statement as well.
notPsychosiz
I started this gangsta sh-
This is why I never care when white and asian stores are actually stolen from.
You might as well steal from these stores, because you will treated the same regardless.
You might as well steal from these stores, because you will treated the same regardless.
Fight fire with fire. Get on these apps and start reporting these "suspicious" cacs.
Not trying to be combative but do you think that would work? We already know whites get preferential treatment from law enforcement, would they even take a report on a suspicious white person seriously particularly if it's coming from a black person?
Rakim Allah
Superstar
Not sure until we try. Have to exhaust all our options.
loyola llothta
☭☭☭
Never sleep on cacs and the evil they do
ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
Damn I can't wait for somebody to nuke this shytty ass country. It's full of hillbillies and CACs scared of their own shadow