Men and women wonder if merely walking or driving justifies being followed, stopped, or questioned. This practice and the presumption of guilt so often associated with people of color must come to an end.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way because of what color you are,' like, that's just holding everybody back, you know what I'm saying?
If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
We march on because all lives matter, not to be judged by the color of their skin.
I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.
I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parking spaces. I don't like to step on the blue lines. I always step over them. I don't know what the deal is. I don't know if it's a fear of injury, or a disrespectful thing, or if I just don't want to think about something like that happening.
I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.