Getting spat at because of who i am

Holla peno wrote: ]Next. That is, unless you'd like us to talk about the obvious subtext here, being "I'm a young entitled white guy and I'm gonna flog the fact that I'm Jewish in order to seem somehow oppressed even though everyone and g-d knows that most of the non-Hasidic Jews in this country are middle class."

"Plus I'm going to wildly calculate that a lot of the people who I suspect of spitting in my vicinity are Muslim."

Anyways, no one hates you cause you're Jewish. Not even the pockmarked junkie in my hallway. Get over yourself.

You sound like you got a little hate going on there yourself. The guy is trying to think of any reason at all why people might be spitting on him. I don't think it's unreasonable to wonder about any aspect of one's appearance or racial/ethnic background. If he were fat or walked with a cane, he might (appropriately) wonder if he were being targeted for these things.

As someone from PH who happened to be in Boston this past weekend, I witnessed a young white male spit intentionally and directly onto a outdoor cafe table while a young white couple was sitting and enjoying their lunch on a sunny day in Harvard Square. As a white male who has lived in PH for over a few decades, this has been going on since I was a kid growing up in CH in the 70s. Nothing ever changes about people. Just plain disgusting! As someone just mentioned to me the other day, the only difference between humans and animals is that some humans have developed the skills to use toilet paper! :shock:

saskia wrote: [quote=Holla peno]]Next. That is, unless you'd like us to talk about the obvious subtext here, being "I'm a young entitled white guy and I'm gonna flog the fact that I'm Jewish in order to seem somehow oppressed even though everyone and g-d knows that most of the non-Hasidic Jews in this country are middle class."

"Plus I'm going to wildly calculate that a lot of the people who I suspect of spitting in my vicinity are Muslim."

Anyways, no one hates you cause you're Jewish. Not even the pockmarked junkie in my hallway. Get over yourself.

You sound like you got a little hate going on there yourself. The guy is trying to think of any reason at all why people might be spitting on him. I don't think it's unreasonable to wonder about any aspect of one's appearance or racial/ethnic background. If he were fat or walked with a cane, he might (appropriately) wonder if he were being targeted for these things.


This thread has shown:
a. Spitters seem to be of all races.
b. Spitters seem to spit at people of all races.

...but I think it is natural to wonder, esp if the spitter is of a different background than yourself.

When you drive too fast:
Cops give drivers tickets ...yup, perhaps more often to drivers who don't look like them.

When you show up everyday late:
Bosses fire employees ...yup, perhaps more quickly if the employee doesn't look like them.

When you walk by an asshole:
The asshole spits ...perhaps more often you, um, don't look like the asshole.

Which leads to the question:
Who among us hasn't wondered if we got ticketed by the cop or fired by the boss, largely on the basis of looking different than them?

....even if we were actually guilty of :
going 82 MPH?
showing up everyday late for work for the past month?

Which leads to the final question:
Why should we be expected to not to wonder if seemingly the only reason we got spit on by an asshole was the "offense" of mistakenly walking by?

You alll sound like grade A f*ckfaces. And, thanks Urban Cow for posting your picture up here...cuz when I see you Ima spit a big one in your direction.

Could it be simply that you got a stank attitude? Yerrrsss...I think so. Stop behaving as if you are in the jungle and we are the other....I can see you from a mile away walking with your stupid-ass coffee all plugged into your headphones....you all look the same, talk the same....you hate us..have ZERO interaction with us.....AND YES YOU CAN'T WAIT TILL THEY GET RID OF US DARKIES....

So we spit at you....AND IM GOING TO KEEP SPITTING AT YOU TO......

DIE URBAN PIONEERS

But how will you know it's me if we all look the same?

Now, excuse me while I get back to enjoying my stupid-ass coffee.

saskia wrote: [quote=gato]Could it be simply that you got a stank attitude? Yerrrsss...I think so. Stop behaving as if you are in the jungle and we are the other....I can see you from a mile away walking with your stupid-ass coffee all plugged into your headphones....you all look the same, talk the same....you hate us..have ZERO interaction with us.....AND YES YOU CAN'T WAIT TILL THEY GET RID OF US DARKIES....

So we spit at you....AND IM GOING TO KEEP SPITTING AT YOU TO......

DIE URBAN PIONEERS

You are not one of the spitters. You may be a troll, but not a spitting troll. I know this is an anonymous online forum so you can pretend to be whoever you want to be... but in this case, it's obvious that your life keeps you too busy to engage in vindictive spitting.

does anyone still say honky?

in retrospect it's almost a charming word

^^^ "my students spit all the time"



are they phlemish.

All this isn't as bad as watching someone bringing a bag full of empty merlot bottles to the curb on a Sunday morning. Now, THAT's gross.

gato wrote: You alll sound like grade A f*ckfaces. And, thanks Urban Cow for posting your picture up here...cuz when I see you Ima spit a big one in your direction.

Could it be simply that you got a stank attitude? Yerrrsss...I think so. Stop behaving as if you are in the jungle and we are the other....I can see you from a mile away walking with your stupid-ass coffee all plugged into your headphones....you all look the same, talk the same....you hate us..have ZERO interaction with us.....AND YES YOU CAN'T WAIT TILL THEY GET RID OF US DARKIES....

So we spit at you....AND IM GOING TO KEEP SPITTING AT YOU TO......

DIE URBAN PIONEERS

There aren't any coffee places around... and how does walking around minding one's own business equate to "having a stank attitude"

I would think spitting at someone would be more in line with what is seen as "having a stank attitude", regardless of the reason

Pretell enlightented one; please uncover the evidence proving there is a mass conspiracy to "push out us darkies", and that the influx of unfamiliar skin colors is not solely a consequence of landlords looking for reliable, higher paying tenants?

Why do I even bother...

Spit back. Challenge your neighbor to a duel. See who can spit the farthest, longest, largest glob. Who can hack the loudest. Have a spoken event/rap/ coughing contest, see who can come up with the most spitting synonyms (spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue). Get the community involved. Give awards. Perhaps an annual community event, make it a block party activity, a way of getting to know your neighbors and to spark dialogue.


One time someone called the cops came when a stranger on the street threatened to hit me, (I was terrified, he was a huge guy; I'm female,) but they didn't do anything about it. When I mentioned that he'd spit at me though, he was arrested. Since spitting at someone is illegal, make a citizen's arrest. From behind, though.

[quote="travelriter"]Spit back. Challenge your neighbor to a duel. See who can spit the farthest, longest, largest glob. Who can hack the loudest. Have a spoken event/rap/ coughing contest, see who can come up with the most spitting synonyms (spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue). Get the community involved. Give awards.


Great idea , the winners can perform their synchronized spitting at Radio City , be offered scholarships to Harvard, Columbia and Cornell Medical schools, or just become state senators.

Moooooooooooooo!

Little hard to take offense at insults strewn about by serial spitters.

Now i understand, it's Bennie B. who's the problem, because he represents the entitled.
LOL.

Do these same dirtbags spit at well to do blacks, i doubt it.

You can theorize all you want, but it comes down to one simple thing, anyone that spits at, or, on someone, because they are of a different skin color, is a racist.

Hamilton, Bennie was not spit upon, or at.
His path was where the spit was spat.

Ha! That's funny.

I too am Black, like the spitters who spat at Bennie
I don't think that makes them racist if my path too suffers the same fate as his.

Believe me.

Not sure about the motivations of where they are directing it, but there are there are definitely spitters among us. One of my girlfriends (black) had a man's spit land in the palm of her hand as he hocked it out at a subway station. And we had someone in our building who was spitting in the elevator cab.

I rank spitting up there with smoking and then blowing the smoke out for all to "enjoy". I don't necessarily think its done intentionally but it's still damn disgusting.

Try to stay upwind of the spit, cause you get a good wind blowing and that stuff catches flight - you don't want your face to be in its path. It's happened to me :-( (and I'm black).