I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black

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Someone tried to recruit a friend of mine into a white supremacist organization.

He looked as if he was 100% white, but he was one quarter Japanese.
 
PaulinVA said:
Or, one could argue that because of the ambiguity of the whole thing, they could get away with it.
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I’m sure they can tell who’s a senior officer and who’s an embassy flunky.

It would be easy for them to mildly harass someone yet never take it to far. They pulled her over but they didn’t rip apart her car. The reason could be anything from someone fancied her to she was a bit of a ‘karen’, not as polite to staff as she portrayed herself.

There is a problem here, but I don’t think it’s racist in origin.
 
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I agree with you in general, but no group other than blacks is currently being proselytized so heavily by political interests to be racist or to increase the level of racism they formerly had.
Feanor2 said:
My post is related to my experience as a white person having other white people say racist things to me assuming I hold the same beliefs.
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Saying things that are politically incorrect is not the same thing as being a racist. Lots of people say politically incorrect things.
 
I don’t run into other white people who assume I am “racist like them” unless it’s a blue collar or economically depressed area and I am dressed and acting in a way so as to fit in and not become a target for robbery or other abuse. If you spend your time around educated professionals, most of them will assume you’re not racist unless you do something to suggest otherwise, like put a Confederate flag sticker on your car.
 
Ridgerunner said:
Saying things that are politically incorrect is not the same thing as being a racist. Lots of people say politically incorrect things.
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The problem is that the definition of “racism” has expanded so far that if you disagree with the “politically correct” take on anything, you’re called a racist. Most people who loathe Trump for example are not shy about calling every person who votes for Trump a “racist” regardless of why they voted for him. The mere fact that we’re having a discussion about whether this lady’s border-crossing story had more to it than just her perceptions would be considered “racist”. If I object to anti-police-brutality protesters blocking the highway because it’s dangerous for both them and drivers, I’m “racist”. If I express support for the police in any way, I’m “racist”. Etc.
 
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Feanor2 said:
It certainly doesn’t happen every day to me either but happens more than once or twice a year.

The occurrence was higher in VA and NC than in NY and MA.
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How about 1/2 of all African American unborn being aborted in NYC? You won’t find anything like that in NC… also, I’m sure similar exists in MA. Time to acknowledge this as well, the roots of Planned Parenthood, location of clinics as well. Racism and really, accusing others of racism takes up too much civil discourse, we might as well then, lay it all out.

I’d say NC has less occurrence. VA has that Governor that some have accused of talking about infanticide, so I’m not sure, sadly, how reliable VA still would be.
 
Feanor2 said:
My post is related to my experience as a white person having other white people say racist things to me assuming I hold the same beliefs.
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The same has happen to me as well. Maybe I look racist.
 
vz71 said:
At present we do not have sufficient evidence of racism on the part of the border patrol to make that accusation towards them.
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I want to be clear that I am not accusing anyone posting here of racism or being racist.

That said, I wonder if one of the reasons that racism is perceived as a problem by people of color and not by White people is that there is always ambiguity, always alternative reasons, always plausible non-racist explanations, for the events to have happened.

Unless someone says, “Oh, yeah, I hate Black people”, their actions can be perceived differently by different people.
 
PaulinVA said:
Unless someone says, “Oh, yeah, I hate Black people”, their actions can be perceived differently by different people.
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Exactly. We had a sad case here where some young white guy was cut off in traffic by a black female teenage girl who had just graduated high school and preparing to go off to college. He shot at her, it’s unclear whether he intended to hurt her or just scare her, but he killed her. The guy did not have a past violent history and there was no evidence that he had expressed any animosity towards blacks in his life, so the prosecutor did not prosecute it as a racial hate crime. The guy was still sent to prison for a long time.

The girl’s mother, who has appeared at some rallies and been the subject of a WaPo article, insists that the killing was racially motivated and that the guy wouldn’t have done that to a white girl. She further insists thar the prosecutor’s not prosecuting it as a racial hate crime is systemic racism, despite lack of evidence. She also has expressed that if others in the community don’t agree with her that her daughter’s death was racially motivated, we’re engaging in systemic racism in the community. She’s also upset that her employer has not been understanding about the mental health issues she’s had due to her daughter’s murder, so that’s racism too in her book.

While I feel really bad for this lady and I know she is affected by this murder in a way she probably won’t be able to get over, there just wasn’t evidence this was a race hate crime or that the guy wouldn’t have done the same to a white girl, or to anyone else who happened to cut him off in traffic that day. As for her employer, there’s also no evidence that they wouldn’t treat a white worker who was missing work or underperforming due to a family trauma in the same way. But this lady and lots of others would claim I’m being racist.
 
PaulinVA said:
I wonder if one of the reasons that racism is perceived as a problem by people of color and not by White people
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Think how this statement would be perceived if the colors were reversed and it was about anything else.
PaulinVA said:
there is always ambiguity, always alternative reasons, always plausible non-racist explanations, for the events to have happened.
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Which is a very good reason not to assume it or accuse people of it.
 
The story is too graphic to post a link too; but let’s say in 2014, the Border Patrol and Customs in that area (and the workers are probably moved around a bit as that is years ago) were sued over how they conducted a search. I don’t know what the outcome of that lawsuit was. It’s quite common for law enforcement agencies (and indeed, other agencies of the government) to be sued periodically.

By the way, the author of this article has been the subject of others and even set up a gofundme account. She sounds like she suffers from PSTD but I’m not sure where it came from.

Everyone can find those for themselves.

Just one of a few articles I saw on her:

www.pri.org

Former US diplomat attests to racial discrimination in diplomatic corps - The World from PRX

Tianna Spears says she faced racial discrimination as a US consular officer abroad. "America loses, first of all, when we're not an inclusive society and when we're not welcoming to others," she told The World. "But secondly, when we're overseas at our embassies and consulates abroad, we have a...
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I agree with one of the comments above, maybe she did something to get on the bad side of the officers at the border. Years ago, I tried to talk a police officer out of giving me a ticket and he sure was harsh on me at the time. Nothing doing though, all of that came to nothing. I paid a speeding ticket fine.
 
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Yes, i mentioned her blog and her Gofundme earlier in the thread. I didn’t see any reason to link the blog here though. As I said above she has been featured in NY Times also.
 
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