It’s a belligerent cracker problem.
When I was 11 or 12, we likes to ride our BMX bikes on a series of valleys and ridges that we called them “the dunes”. To get there, we could go the long way, or we could cut through some a corn field and down some farmer’s rutty two tracks.
Unfortunately one of the property owners, actually it’s not clear he really did own the property, but he seemed to think he owned it. Anyways, this older guy would yell at us sometimes and we’d book it out of there. We usually got through without him noticing, it was pretty rare to get yelled at. Except one time he decided to wait for us to come back through. And held us up at gun point to question us. He felt we were “wrecking his barn”, that we should “go to juvie for vandalism”. We never been to his barn. He was full of crap, but obviously we didn’t argue while he had a rifle pointed at us. My friend told his parents, the cops got involved. He denied everything. Because we’re kids we got a lecture of making up lies and trespassing from the officer.
I think this kind of stuff happens once in a while to white people. Especially if you don’t have much social status (a kid, for example) where you can be easily dismissed by the authorities. This happens MUCH more frequently to black people. And probably goes unreported because instead of getting a lecture, the cops might arrest some 11-12 year old black kids for some made-up crime.
Systematic racism is bad, really bad. But the freaks that we let run around armed makes it worse.
