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Infinite money glitch (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 158 points 9 months ago

Racist bank employees made it a police matter when they assumed he was passing a fraudulent check and called to have the guy arrested for being a negro in possession of money.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But how do they "assume" this? And why does the police accept it without any evidence?
I mean the amateurish incompetence is staggering.

Isn't it normal procedure to deposit the check until it's cleared?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 115 points 9 months ago

First time hearing about America?

[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 82 points 9 months ago

Wait until they hear about folks that get caught driving while black.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago

Or try voting. Or try electing representation. Or try owning firearms like the white folks.

Basically anything while trying to be black in America.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 28 points 9 months ago
[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Singing too, but only certain genres

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Fucking hell, this. I used to live in a shit hole conservative state in a shit hole conservative town with a university. My buddy from New Jersey comes to visit. He's a 5'5 Jamaican man. We take him out one night and two people, each on a separate occasion, asked him if he played football for the university.

What the fuck.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Many people straight up suck.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

No, I know this happens, I just don't get how the amateur hour process is allowed to continue?

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

I just don't get how the amateur hour process is allowed to continue?

The first black student to enroll in a white high school, following desegregation.

The current Republican frontrunner’s primary voting base.

It’s the same generation in both images. The first image is Elizabeth Eckford, one of the first black students to enroll in Little Rock high school following desegregation in 1957. Notice that she’s surrounded by a crowd of angry white students. The second image is Donald Trump’s primary voting base.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 29 points 9 months ago

How many generations ago was brutal, undiluted systemic racism accepted? ‘Bout 2.5. it takes a while to fix, given that segregationists instilled such strong feelings into their progeny. It’s easier to break something than to fix it, most especially when someone is actively working to obstruct the repair. It takes 2 seconds to pop a tire and 20 minutes to change.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

it takes a while to fix

This is reality I know, but it's unacceptable, this kind of racism needs to be punished harder, to make racists understand their behavior is unacceptable.

[-] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 24 points 9 months ago

Sure but the people who would do the punishing are most likely also racist so it won’t happen

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Oh boy, you are probably right.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It sounds like you're learning why segregation had to be ended at gunpoint. Literally.

Racists are trash, and trash doesn't spontaneously turn to gold.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 32 points 9 months ago

If a bank employee KNOWS someone is trying to deposit a fraudulent check, they should call the police to arrest that person instead of letting them leave and try again.

But they had no evidence, merely the racist assumption that a black man could not have come by that much money legally.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago

This is basically correct. If the check is from that particular bank they can easily call the person who wrote it and ask "did you write this check?". But no one would do that for a deposit. If you work at a bank you can recognize your own checks just by looking at them.

If the check is for a different bank and looks really fake, a bank might not deposit it and ask some questions about it ("who gave it to you?"). This is to protect depositors from fake check scams ("deposit this check and give me back 10%"). If the person really wanted to deposit it, the bank employees might recommend cashing it at the bank listed on the check. They will know if it's real.

I actually saw a similar situation to the one here. A black non-customer had a large denomination check that looked different from normal checks. After some questions, he said he got it from a settlement. It turned out that the check was fine, the check design was just not used often. Total time was like 20 minutes to verify the check, open the account, and deposit it. He said he would bring his next settlement check next time.

See? Easy to verify it and not be racist.

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today 18 points 9 months ago

Simple they were racist fucks

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Welcome to the origin of the “it’s illegal to [x] while black” meme. It’s illegal to drive while black. It’s illegal to have money while black. It’s illegal to eat chips while black. It’s illegal to sleep in your own bed while black. Etc, etc, etc… All of these are examples of times black people have been profiled and discriminated against for no reason other than the color of their skin.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

First I heard was driving while black, because black people are stopped 10 times more frequently than whites. I know the term.
I was just pointing out that being racist and discriminating based on color is de facto illegal, while doing x while black is not.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 14 points 9 months ago

Guess who enforces the laws?

The racist police.

[-] Damdy@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Don't think it said anything about the police response other than that they were called to be fair.

[-] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

why does the police accept it without any evidence?

"Will we get to beat someone up without consequences? Hell yeah, who cares if he did anything or not"

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

I mean, the cops killed George Floyd for using a counterfeit $20 bill at a convenience store in Minneapolis.

Detroit (where this happened) is just one state over.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

Technically Michigan is two states over, with Wisconsin and Lake Michigan in between, excluding the UP

[-] John_McMurray@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago

Nah. It came out later Floyd and the cop knew each other.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 9 points 9 months ago

That's what makes matters so complicated to try to address - e.g. sometimes cops are racist themselves, directly, but other times they are not and yet still any race-blind application of "enforcement" is going to merely reinforce the racist policies of society.

"Sad:-("

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

Aka systemic racism, covered in Criticsl Race Theory, which racists don't want people to learn about.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

In their "defense", they don't want people to learn much of anything, except obedience. :-(

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