CNN's Omar Jimenez, who was arrested on-air while covering protests in the wake of George Floyd's death, describes what it's like to knock on doors in places that "don't have a lot of Black people."
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CNN reporter says he takes extra precautions when knocking on doors
That’s exactly how i was taught to knock on a door
It’s a sad reality. When people deny it exists… they know they’re lying.
@Ivares Kesner you are saying it’s skin color, and you are saying it’s not skin color. Make up your mind! What you’re saying doesn’t make sense. If you are scared because someone has dark skin, you are racist! What historical event justifies treating one person different than the other because of their skin color? You have too much contradictions and I believe it’s because you don’t know any better.
@Amazing FC Please pay attention to the words people use when communicating. I said dark skin colour contributes to the amount of care one has to take. But *everybody* has to take care when knocking on stranger’s doors in states where house intruders can be killed with impunity. *Everybody.*
As to people being scared of black people due to being racist, that is absurd. They are scared because people of a dark skin colour make up 12% of the population yet commit 75% of violent crime. They are scared because of cold hard statistics. They would be scared of pink, purple or green people just as much if they were so much more statistically likely to commit crime and be violent. Afro-American crime and violence statistics have to get on par with everybody else before you can claim that racism is the reason for this fear. Until then the reason is because a black person is many times more likely to commit violence in society. Being scared of that is not racist. It’s natural. It is a terrible thing and a remnant of slavery but it is what it is. And it has to change if you want white Americans to stop fearing black Americans. Calling rational fear racism will not move this issue forward. As I said. You won’t solve the issue by yelling at it and calling everybody racist.
I ring doorbells like trick or treat, 1 ring..then stay all the way back 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️💯 instinct
Lawsuit racial profiling
Lets pray for 1200 people killed by American police in the past year… and for 1200 people who will be killed by American police this year.
Are they going to talk about the rioting in Chicago?
I am a dark skinned, bald Indian man. People have called the cops on me for being on my own front lawn after dark. And for taking a walk at night in my own neighborhood
@Wendy Wardlow Thank You!❤️ That means a lot. We need more empathy. Lots of people lack it especially, I hate to say it…conservatives.
I’m white skinned and I’ve been targeted by darker skinned people simply for looking different… it goes both ways. Get over yourself
@stacey roberts But no one has called the cops on you for being white skinned. Big difference.
For as much as bigots like to make black people out to be animals, listen to how he describes these situations. He’s speaking about how any person would act when in the presence of a dangerous animal.
In the process of dehumanizing black or other people, bigots dehumanize themselves. If anything in this world classifies a human as being as low as a base animal, it’s the willingness to take a life except in genuine fear and actual real self defense. Not this some kid rang my doorbell or some lady pulled into my driveway bullsh@t excuse self defence garbage.
@Pablo If you live in Chicago, then sure you should really be concerned about the rioting there, if you do not live in Chicago then you are just throwing out a virtual bone for the human carnivores in this country.
Yet the camera man remains unscathed!
I’m sad about this. America is at a new low.
@Rainbeaux Unicorn😂 you really believe that you’re a slave?
@Angry Amish … did I say that?
@Rainbeaux Unicorn you pretty much did.
I remember seeing him get arrested on TV. I could see his media badge. This was a violation of his First Amendment rights. Minnesota Police arrested him and murdered Philando Castile and George Floyd. He had to be careful that he wasn’t next.
Exactly. I remember when he got arrested on live tv too.
Are they going to talk about the rioting in Chicago?
Next time an Asian, Latin, Indian, or Black conservative gaslights me saying it’s all fake and I’m the crazy evil one I’ll just smile quietly to myself 😊
@Pablo 🤭
Not been paying attention to Chicago I see. Wish they would cover the white lady that was beat by a bunch of thugs. But we don’t go there do we? I think profiling may keep you safer in todays day and age😊.
@Pablo Or Alabama shooting: 4 dead, several injured during possible birthday party shooting.
@lpg12338 And the church shooting in Tennessee too. They’re over that one.
As a white man, when I ring a stranger’s doorbell, I also step back off the porch out of precaution. This isn’t just something a black man does out of precaution.
The problem is, the attack is usually against the black person. In the cases where the people that went to the wrong houses were shot, which of the victims was white ? Did you see the case where the black reporter was handcuffed, but the white reporter was allowed to do the same thing the black person was doing before he was handcuffed? That is the point! Difference in treatment based on the color of people’s skin. That is the issue, not the courteous stepping away from someone’s door when you ring their bell.
Herbert these people are so hateful they will even make fun of your name ,they will find anything to make you feel inferior to them
This is not how it should be. This is horrific 😔
We should all be embarrassed about our conscious and unconscious racial bias. It is drilled into our heads from childhood.
I don’t know any other country in the developed world that is so obsessed with labeling and stigmatizing people by their skin color so blatantly.
I’ve had friends introduce me to people saying, “This is my ‘black’ friend Fred.
I always reply, “I am not blind, I can see him. Just telling me his/her name is enough.”
But, you can see that when the same person introduces you to another white person, he doesn’t say, “This is my ‘white’ friend, John.”
It is very frustrating.
When someone makes a note of someone else’s skin color they are tacitly implying that they are superior to that other human being. And, that is shameful.
Are they going to talk about the rioting in Chicago?
Not been paying attention to Chicago I see. Wish they would cover the white lady that was beat by a bunch of thugs. But we don’t go there do we? I think profiling may keep you safer in todays day and age😊.
The reason I don’t believe in my country is because in America we seem to deny racism exists while projecting it relentlessly. Leaders are bought, freedom is sold, and we give people the power to make rules that benefit themselves under the guise that it protects us collectively. Every time I leave with my caregiver, people either wanna hug him, or hide their purse. It’s very sad.
Are they going to talk about the rioting in Chicago?
I’m a white lady and I do the same thing. For my safety and to hopefully make it easier for the door to open. I don’t worry about being harmed so much as snatched.
Privilege is invisible to those who have it.
@Michael Albert Cautiously asking who is it, checking through your peephole and answering the door is being respectful!
Wise words directed to women.
@MrCee
300 million Americans and you try to equate the actions of one elderly man’s actions to all?
We don’t yet know the full story but early reports are the young man tried to open the door rather than just knock or ring the bell. Fear and confusion likely played a big role in this. Stepping back after ringing is intended to reduce both.
@Connie Brown
I’m not defending the elderly man who is probably sick with remorse today. Had the young man knocked or rang and stepped back, this would likely have been avoided. According to the elderly man, the victim tried to open the door.
The irony is that if you believe that that elderly man DID NOT look first, then why is CNN pretending that this is about race?
My dad is mexican and my mom is norwegian and I witnessed how different people reacted to my blonde fair skinned mother over my brown skinned black hair father.people constantly insisted my dad had kidnapped me and my brother,they wouldn’t listen to what we would tell them.police would come and they would treat my dad just as bad questioning him being our dad and we would be crying.it blows my mind that people justify shooting anyone because they knocked on your door accidently
In 1983, I was a 12-year-old African-American kid, who worked for the Circulation Department of the Tallahassee Democrat(local newspaper). That department was in charge of taking teenagers, every afternoon to late evenings to affluent neighborhoods around Tallahassee, Florida, selling one month, three months and six months subscriptions for the paper.
Back then, I was too young and maybe a bit too naive to understand what I was experiencing was racism. Now, don’t get me wrong, I clearly recognized the obvious, overt racism, like having the police department called on us for simply walking through neighborhoods that aren’t accustom to those of the darker hue.
But, the majority of the time, people would yell from inside their homes, “No thank you!” “I don’t want it!” “I already have a subscription!” and every now and again, I’d get the “Get off my porch!”
But, the majority of people, maybe 90% were cool with us and purchased subscriptions from us, as i was the best seller for years.
However, this one time, I was walking up the driveway, towards an older cottage-like home, with a very dark screened porch, as I was walking up to the screen door, a white guy walked out, asked me, “What can I do for ya?” I went through my spill, he cut me off, turned towards the screen door and yelled, “Ma, this colored boy out here is trying to sell ya the paper, do you want it?”
His mother replied in the most strained-elderly voice, “Tell him I already get it.”
I thanked them and walked back down their driveway, to the sidewalk, met up with my friend, the next house over, I asked him, “Alfred, did you know I was colored?”
Alfred asked, “Colored?”
“Yes, that white guy just called me colored.” I replied.
“Well, what color are you?” Alfred asked.
“I’m blue, but I think you are pink!” I joked.
That’s how we as punk kids handled racism in our hometown of Tallahassee, Florida.