Dude, that scared me. LOL.

lol, so mean... and any respectable lady isn't gonna just take that laying down.

that's not like the girls I know who would have been trying to get into his pants.

Fear of a Black Nation Circus Midget

Gives a whole new meaning to the term "Shorty"

I'm not racist, but keep those little freaks away from me. AHHHHH!

They do that to me as well. Everytime I encounter a lady on the street late at night or in an elevator they become cautious.

I don't know, I guess my Asian gotee makes me look like a criminal or something

Yes, it does feel really really crappy when it happens to you. But since now I'm use to that kind of response from people, I don't blame them for behaving that way. It's good to be cautious. So I wouldn't necessarily call them dumb bitches.

But it does feel really really really crappy when someone does that to you.

I wish people cowered in fear when I got into an elevator. Think of the power trip you'd get off that.

Dude,
Just wear Axe Body spray like me and those bitches will be all over yoU!!1!

Pht - whatever. Women do the same thing for ANY stranger that walks into the elevator. It's not racism. It's called 'not being a stupid, naive idiot'. When anyone who is a stranger is in close proximity, you become cautious with your belongings. I'm a white boy, and I've seen women do the same thing when I walk into an elevator and they're alone. I think some black people out there need to chill out and not take every little thing they see and blow it out of proportion.

I think some black people out there need to chill out and not take every little thing they see and blow it out of proportion.


"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

--Booker T. Washington

This video is about as idiotic as taking it as a personal insult when your neighbor locks his door. She's not adopting a defensive posture because she thinks you're a mugger, she's adopting a defensive posture because she can't know for certain that you aren't. It would be foolish to pretend that it's impossible.

Acknowledging facts and behaving rationally is not racism. Believing in stereotypes without any evidence, or assuming that any particular person will fit the mold of a statistically well-backed stereotype, is more like racism.

The protagonist of the video is the one making unfounded assumptions about the motives of the other on the basis of stereotypes. The woman may merely be agnostic and playing it safe. So the man in the video is being a hypocrite. He's calling her a "stupid white bitch" on the basis of some really unfounded assumptions about white people. THAT is racism.

I took a few criminal justice courses in college. 30% of all black men in the country are either in prison, going to prison, or have been in prison. In Washington, DC, 50% of all black men have or will have a criminal background. The likelihood of a black man stealing a white woman's purse in an elevator is far, far higher than if it were a white man. I'm surprised so many comments state that there is little to no racial bias going on in such situations, considering the gigantic gap in criminality between whites and blacks.

Simply put, if whites and blacks had identical, or even remotely similar criminality rates, then, and only then, would I possibly believe that white women had identical "purse defending" behavior around both groups of men.
Until that day, I'm not buying it. (This Scientific American article on Buried Prejudice is pretty good: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=buried-prejudice-the-bigot-in-your-brain&print=true)

I also thought it was clear that the video is an angry, and yes, racist response to racism the creator feels exists. That's kinda the point. What goes around comes around.

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Some people avoid me in the elavator... maybe its because I take the time to fart...

Or because I like to stand right in the middle of the elavator..

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Don't flatter yourselves, different-skinned/bearded people. I'm white and clean-shaven and women still walk faster away from me when it's dark out. Women are afraid of men. It's just prudence when you're in a place that has a high crime rate.

We get notices by email whenever a crime is committed within a block or two of my school's campus. I'd say there's an average of a mugging per week, and 90% of the time it's a group of four or five teens, usually black.

But, shock! Maybe this is because it's a low income area and just happens to be predominantly black. Still, it feeds that subconscious prejudice to see, every single week, that someone was beaten and mugged by "four male black youths."

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