"Learn your manners," a white man wrote to his black neighbor. This was the response.
The Black Snowflake's Response:As he rode the subway to work, Richard Brookshire couldn’t stop seething over the letter he found taped to his door.
A friend had called at 1 a.m. Thursday, looking for advice on quitting his job. Brookshire, a manager at a leadership institute who writes on the side, paced around his Manhattan apartment for a half-hour, giving the friend advice on the right tone to strike in the resignation letter, then crawled into bed.
As the 29-year-old rushed to work hours later, he found the letter, scrawled in cursive and stuck to his door:
“It is extremely rude and inconsiderate to scream and stomp around your apartment until almost 2 a.m.,” the letter said. “A complaint has been submitted to the management. Next time this will go straight to the police. Please learn your manners.”
The letter, with its casual threat, represented the difference in perspective between the black man living in apartment 6J and the white man living a floor below, Brookshire said.
He was livid that, with all the talk of police brutality against minorities escalating from benign situations, someone would think calling the cops was the best response to a loud conversation.
“With cops you just never know, especially when it’s late at night,” Brookshire said. “Maybe they’re tired. Maybe they’ll catch an attitude with me. I personally haven’t had the negative reactions with police. But I’m literate. I see how they interact with other people of color.”
Brookshire, who has a Master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University, delves into issues like that on The Reparations Podcast, which explores “the intersectionalities of blackness, politics and popular culture through humor and frank dialogue … tackling the s**t you don’t talk about with your white friends.”
The asshole's letter said absolutely nothing about race, but why do people like the little black snowflake always immediately jump to the race baiting? Unless the pussy has a #BLM doormat, it wouldn't surprise me if the neighbor had no idea what color the guy was when he dropped off the letter. Why can't people like him deal with others on an individual level without bringing race into the conversation?
Richard, do the world a favor and eat a bullet or step in front of a NYC city bus, please...
