This was a pretty good read, for something that just came out, that reminds us that being able to act weird in unfamiliar places is a kind of white privilege.
Yeah we gotta be careful out here yall!!! If you Black and playing Pokemon Go you needa nerd yaself up or somethin so these ppl don’t think you there to rob or hurt somebody smh :/
Really glad to see more pieces about this. People need to realize how pervasive racism REALLY is and what that means every. hour. of a black person’s life.
As much as I’d like to disagree with this, i can’t. I’ve seen black men and women playing Pokemon Go but only in airports and tourist areas. Even though I tried to get a pokemon at my local park, I had to bring my dog because I was afraid of being mugged. I don’t have a smartphone I have this huge ipad and its just a bad situation. Not to mention the locations are up and down Linwood which everyone knows is a bad street even if you DON’T have a smartphone. I can’t see me playing this until I get a smartphone and my own car.