{"id":131051,"date":"2016-07-11T02:32:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T02:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/the-darker-side-so-to-speak-of-pokmon-go.html"},"modified":"2016-07-11T02:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T02:32:44","slug":"the-darker-side-so-to-speak-of-pokmon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/the-darker-side-so-to-speak-of-pokmon-go.html","title":{"rendered":"The Darker Side (so to speak) of Pokémon Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bottom line: it makes a very, very sad sense that it's a lot more dangerous for a black man, or black youth, to go wandering back and forth and around and through through neighborhoods \/ streets \/ apartment complexes \/ commercial centers.<\/p>\n

I've heard stories of people playing Ingress (the previous Niantic game with a similar mechanic) and being stopped by police on patrol, or where people have called in about "a stranger behaving suspiciously" in areas while playing it at odd hours. I can absolutely see where, in some places, with some police forces, where this sort of thing could end tragically — and that it would be more likely to end tragically for a person of color.<\/p>\n

Which is just awful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nPokémon Go Could Be A Death Sentence For A Black Man<\/a><\/span>
\nThis week has been a catastrophe for Blackness. Two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were killed by police officers within 24 hours of each other. Neither had committed a crime that was punishable by death nor did they put any officers lives at risk. It’s inexcusable, unjustifiable, and is perpetuated by a system that disproportionately targets Black Men. Then in the same week, police officers in Dallas were killed during an otherwise pe…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bottom line: it makes a very, very sad sense that it's a lot more dangerous for a black man, or black youth, to go wandering back and forth and around and through through neighborhoods \/ streets \/ apartment complexes \/ commercial centers. 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