How 'Gardening While Black' Almost Landed This Detroit Man in Jail

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How 'Gardening While Black' Almost Landed This Detroit Man in Jail
For nearly two years, a man tilled an overgrown park in a half-abandoned Detroit neighborhood into a tiny urban farm, filling the earth with the seeds of kale and spinach and radishes. He was black.

For half of that time, the man, Marc Peeples, 32, was the subject of dozens of calls to the police — the allegations growing more serious with each call — by three women who lived on a street facing the park. They were white.

Mr. Peeples said he returned to the neighborhood where he grew up to create a garden that could help feed residents, chip away at food deserts and teach children about urban horticulture — a personal redemptive mission after three years in prison on drug charges.

What happened next was something else: gardening while black, as his lawyer described it, another example of white people calling the police on a black person for everyday activities.
 

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I think it can be blamed on the mass media and entertainment.

They can indirectly set opinions in to people's minds and they have a tendency to be racially disproportionate in how they portray certain activities.

That is despite their claims of maintaining political correctness. You look at internet for example. Most ads for leisure and travel show whites, most ads for gardening show whites, most ads for humanitarian issues show blacks, most ads for science, research, and technology show whites, most ads for basketball and sometimes other sports show blacks, look for articles about fashion and beauty most will show whites.

That has to change and should have been done a long time ago already.
 
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Mass media plays a part, but if you make those changes to mass media, then people also have to stop complaining about those changes. The are some who view changes in diversity as "having something shoved down their throat." However, the continued harassment goes beyond any influence of mass media.
 
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Read the story carefully.

The trouble started in the summer of 2017 with the colors red, black and green. Mr. Peeples painted the color bands on a tree and on the porch of a gutted home facing the park. He said they were the colors of liberation, of Pan Africanism. The women said they were the colors of a gang.

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“We were like, ‘You can’t paint them trees.’ That’s when the threats started. He yelled it out from the field. He said he would kill us, burn down our homes and kill our dogs too, so we went and filed the police reports,” Ms. Morris, 37, said in an interview. “We went down to the prosecuting attorney’s office and told our story and it went to court. We didn’t want it to go that far. We just wanted the threats to stop.”


## Certainly a guy who feels obligated to paint what amounts to black power color on trees is not a guy who would threaten white people actually...

smh come on
 
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Read the story carefully.

The trouble started in the summer of 2017 with the colors red, black and green. Mr. Peeples painted the color bands on a tree and on the porch of a gutted home facing the park. He said they were the colors of liberation, of Pan Africanism. The women said they were the colors of a gang.

Pan-African flag - Wikipedia

“We were like, ‘You can’t paint them trees.’ That’s when the threats started. He yelled it out from the field. He said he would kill us, burn down our homes and kill our dogs too, so we went and filed the police reports,” Ms. Morris, 37, said in an interview. “We went down to the prosecuting attorney’s office and told our story and it went to court. We didn’t want it to go that far. We just wanted the threats to stop.”


## Certainly a guy who feels obligated to paint what amounts to black power color on trees is not a guy who would threaten white people actually...

smh come on
Yes, we should trust the words of people who invented a pedophilia accusation. But I guess that's how it goes, if a black person is targeted, they are guilty, the words of their accuser are always true.
 
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I think it can be blamed on the mass media and entertainment.

They can indirectly set opinions in to people's minds and they have a tendency to be racially disproportionate in how they portray certain activities.

That is despite their claims of maintaining political correctness. You look at internet for example. Most ads for leisure and travel show whites, most ads for gardening show whites, most ads for humanitarian issues show blacks, most ads for science, research, and technology show whites, most ads for basketball and sometimes other sports show blacks, look for articles about fashion and beauty most will show whites.

That has to change and should have been done a long time ago already.
It’s the media’s JOB to divide us and increase hate. That’s why watching the news can literally ruin your day.
 
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There are mostly white people in our community. Some of them have gotten arrested for maintaining gardens, usually the indoor variety.
 
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Yes, we should trust the words of people who invented a pedophilia accusation. But I guess that's how it goes, if a black person is targeted, they are guilty, the words of their accuser are always true.

No I do not think a "black" person is guilty simply because they are targeted. All I am pointing out is there is two sides to every story and a bit of truth on both sides.
 
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No I do not think a "black" person is guilty simply because they are targeted. All I am pointing out is there is two sides to every story and a bit of truth on both sides.
They invented a fake gun and a fake sexual assault, yet there is a little truth to their accusation? Sure...

There's a reason why their case was thrown out in court when the truth came out.
 
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They invented a fake gun and a fake sexual assault, yet there is a little truth to their accusation? Sure...

There's a reason why their case was thrown out in court when the truth came out.

And to you this equates to all white people targeting blacks....when one is consumed by race, all they see is race.
 
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And to you this equates to all white people targeting blacks....when one is consumed by race, all they see is race.
Where did anyone say this equates to all white people targeting blacks? And what does this vacant attempt to change the subject have to do with your poor assessment that the people targeting this man were trustworthy despite their repeated lies?
 
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I think that falls under freedom of expression.
Some people don't understand that pan-African colors is simply expression. You see plenty of pan-African colors painted around white people, it's not a problem, it not meant to start a conflict. But calling the police and saying someone has a gun or saying they're a pedophile, that's meant to terrorize.

And don't worry, you living in Germany does not mean anything.
 
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Some people don't understand that pan-African colors is simply expression. You see plenty of pan-African colors painted around white people, it's not a problem, it not meant to start a conflict. But calling the police and saying someone has a gun or saying they're a pedophile, that's meant to terrorize.

And don't worry, you living in Germany does not mean anything.
It means I dont have to be afraid that anyone I might run afoul of might carry a handgun.
 
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