July 15th, 2011 - Part 2
Jul. 15th, 2011 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewalkGot stopped by the Poleeze yesterday. Musta thought I was ridin' dirty.
I don't know, for one it was raining and we had to stand out in the rain without umbrellas as they slowly looked at all of our foreigner registration cards and wrote down information for all three of us, and then asked us a ton of questions. They were nice enough about it, I guess. Smiling and stuff, but something about it was offensive. We were two blocks from our houses and we weren't doing a darn thing to raise attention. I have friends who've had this happen before, but they were at the airport or in sketchy places.
I'm glad I didn't leave my purse at home, I'd thought about it! Imagine the mess that would've turned into. I'm kind of surprised I haven't gotten stopped on my 11PM runs alone in the dark. They said they were surprised to see three foreign women walking at night. Is this more suspicious than one foreign woman? Or three foreign women walking during the day? I don't know.
They warned us about the abundance of perverts in this neighborhood at such a dark hour (almost 9PM). We were standing in front of my technical high school at the time though, and I wanted to tell them the perverts are only around the area from 8:45 to 3:10, Monday through Friday. Those are the ones they should be worried about.
At any rate, it gives me even stronger feelings against laws that make it okay to ask "foreign-looking people" to show their registration documents in the U.S. Racial profiling is never any good. Also, it makes a person feel dirty and unwelcome. Even if we could've just had a conversation about
Relatedly, I look forward to going back to the U.S. where people know things about me because they've spoken to me, not because they've looked at my face. Granted, they'll make other assumptions from looking at me, but at least none will be quite as baseless as the racial assumptions are.
I don't know, for one it was raining and we had to stand out in the rain without umbrellas as they slowly looked at all of our foreigner registration cards and wrote down information for all three of us, and then asked us a ton of questions. They were nice enough about it, I guess. Smiling and stuff, but something about it was offensive. We were two blocks from our houses and we weren't doing a darn thing to raise attention. I have friends who've had this happen before, but they were at the airport or in sketchy places.
I'm glad I didn't leave my purse at home, I'd thought about it! Imagine the mess that would've turned into. I'm kind of surprised I haven't gotten stopped on my 11PM runs alone in the dark. They said they were surprised to see three foreign women walking at night. Is this more suspicious than one foreign woman? Or three foreign women walking during the day? I don't know.
They warned us about the abundance of perverts in this neighborhood at such a dark hour (almost 9PM). We were standing in front of my technical high school at the time though, and I wanted to tell them the perverts are only around the area from 8:45 to 3:10, Monday through Friday. Those are the ones they should be worried about.
At any rate, it gives me even stronger feelings against laws that make it okay to ask "foreign-looking people" to show their registration documents in the U.S. Racial profiling is never any good. Also, it makes a person feel dirty and unwelcome. Even if we could've just had a conversation about
Relatedly, I look forward to going back to the U.S. where people know things about me because they've spoken to me, not because they've looked at my face. Granted, they'll make other assumptions from looking at me, but at least none will be quite as baseless as the racial assumptions are.
