[sudo-discuss] my experiences with "crime" in oakland [part 1 of ?]

[Hol Gaskill]

> I also think it gets less fun to rob men as they get older.

based on what?  robbing young people is fun?  this thread...


Nov 18, 2013 11:21:48 PM, sonja.trauss at gmail.com wrote:
What are you talking about ?
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>On Monday, November 18, 2013, Liz Henry  wrote:
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>I like to share fun anecdotes about how I was just hanging out on the
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Internet on a public mailing list then met some pretty racist white
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people who have done plenty of crimes in their lives, but no one goes
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around assuming stuff about them and treating them like they're
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criminals. It's super uplifting!
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- lizzard
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:50 PM, David Barthwell
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david at vergegraphics.com> wrote:
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> To all the people sharing fun stories and uplifting anecdotes about
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> encountering black people in Oakland:  Let's not forget that there are
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> actually some on this list.  In fact, I'm one of them!
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> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:36 PM, rhodey rhodey at anhonesteffort.org> wrote:
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>> Oh yes, it is worth noting that I'm a white male in his early 20s.
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>> --
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>> -- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙
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>> On 11/18/2013 07:12 PM, Sonja Trauss wrote:
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>> > this reminds me of a comment I overheard on the bus when I lived in st
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>> > louis:
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>> > "I'm getting that government money man, fuck street money, it ain't even
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>> > worth it."
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>> > ps are you a boy or a girl?
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>> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:55 PM, rhodey rhodey at anhonesteffort.org
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>> > rhodey at anhonesteffort.org>> wrote:
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>> >     Receiving and contemplating the perspectives of others is one of my
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>> >     favorite ways to burn metaphorical CPU cycles. The level of respect
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>> > I
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>> >     show for differing perspectives is something I hope to never be
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>> >     content with, that is to say I believe it's an endless process and
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>> > I'm
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>> >     still working on it. I have a tendency to keep my head stuck in
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>> >     projects and have realized is that I've been holding out on sharing
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>> >     many of my most valued perspectives, more specifically my
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>> > experiences.
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>> >     It is my hope that through sharing experiences we can better
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>> >     understand how to conduct ourselves within Sudo Room and how we Sudo
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>> >     Room can better conduct ourselves within our local community.
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>> >     I arrived in the "bay area" May 1st by way of some airport in New
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>> >     England, in search of hackers, activists and uncomfortable
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>> >     experiences. After subletting an apartment in the mission for all of
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>> >     month I moved to West Oakland. Since arriving in Oakland I've been
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>> >     robbed three times, to me each experience has been indescribably
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>> >     educational in its own way. However, my first crime related
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>> > experience
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>> >     in Oakland was not a crime at all.
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>> >     There is a corner store within ~6 minutes walking distance from my
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>> >     apartment by West Oakland BART called Happy Times. To me it is
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>> > usually
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>> >     a liquor store, but this day I felt like working through the night
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>> > so
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>> >     I bought 2 large redbull energy drinks. Walking home holding the
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>> >     redbull as best I could in one hand I passed two African-American
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>> >     youths, one female, one male and both no older than 17. We passed
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>> > each
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>> >     other and at this time I was about 20" from home then from behind me
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>> > I
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>> >     heard "hey man, can I get a redbull?".
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>> >     I turned around to face the two of them with a bit of a guilty smile
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>> >     on my face, after all who the fuck really needs 32oz of redbull?
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>> >     Caffeine, other energy drinks, productivity and I all get along
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>> >     swimmingly, all the better if I can help someone else get things
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>> > done.
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>> >     "Sure" I said, followed by "make good use of it" in an attempt to
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>> > make
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>> >     the situation more casual. I walked up and handed him the redbull,
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>> > his
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>> >     face lit up, he went nuts.
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>> >     **and I quote** "Oh man! Asking is so much better than stealing!"
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>> >     The smile stayed on his face as he continued celebrating, exclaiming
Liz Henry
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lizhenry at gmail.com
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