They Do It To Me, Too, And I Am White. They’re Just Being Rude.

Rude and thoughtless. Get over it – and get over yourself.

“NY Times Reporter Accuses White Women Of Racism On City Sidewalks For Not Getting Out Of His Way…”

Greg Howard, a writer for the Sunday Metropolitan Section, in a Wednesday essay titled Was That Racist?, said white women in particular will not make space for him when he’s walking down the street

He also added that there are times when he’s had to step off the sidewalk and into the road, making him ‘feel small’.

In seven years of living and walking here, I’ve found that most people walk courteously – but that white women, at least when I’m in their path, do not,’ Howard wrote.

‘Why only and specifically white women? Do they refuse to acknowledge me because they’ve been taught that they should fear black men, and that any acknowledgment of black men can invite danger?’”

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