Today was a two Karen day, like male and female bookends they were triggered by my riding a bike they "felt" was: A) Odd for a Black person to be riding; (B) Too expensive for a Black person to be riding, so maybe I'd stolen it?; and (C)
needed to tell me they own a much nicer and more expensive one, at which point I said my food is getting cold I have to leave.
These are my neighbors, and now that Trump has won, will be even more insufferable.
#BlackMastodon
@muiren
Did they say your specific brand of bike was too expensive for a Black person, or was it more that any new bike would be too expensive?
To me it seems very strange to claim that a bike would be too expensive for someone and but also say you own a more expensive one, I just don't think of the bike market as having a structure that makes it plausible to happen.
Honestly I would have expected "black people can learn to bike?" as the more likely type of racist reasoning around bikes.
But I'm neither black nor American, so I obviously know very little about the texture of American racism (in general and in your region specifically).
@tobychev
They are triggered by the style and the brand of bike. I have an e bike, a white 2020 RadCity 3 Step-Thru with panniers and a few upgrade customizations.
Typically they try to interrogate me, try to catch me in a lie while coming up with a pretense for taking a picture of the serial number.
Nobody ever wants to talk about biking like a normal person, just how much it costs.
