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Motocyclists to go on protest ride over guy who screamed at black motorcyclist in Dorchester
By adamg on Mon, 08/13/2018 - 10:40pm
The All Rise Against Racism Bike Ride for Peace starts this Sunday at 2 p.m. at Dorchester Avenue and Park Street in Fields Corner, will then proceed around 3:30 p.m. to Adams and Chelmsford streets, where the screaming happened.
The black woman who got screamed at by that white guy is organizing the ride, says:
Our action optic will demonstrate that I and others, as citizens of Boston, have every right to live, walk, ride and stand in every neighborhood in this City.
The City of Boston has many races, which makes us a diverse and a multi cultural community. We can live as one. Anyone who is a part of this community should be able live and ride no matter our skin color, ethnicity or what bike we ride (smile).
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If you don't ride a motorcycle you just riding a child's toy!
Enjoy your veggies...
... and we’ll enjoy our motorcycles. Deal?
Enjoy your motorcycles legally
And I will enjoy my veggies on the veranda in peace. Deal?
Just don't light a match
You may be enjoying your veggies on the veranda in peace, but it's doubtful anyone else will be getting much enjoyment out of your...ah, intermittently silent culinary adventure.
Methane causes climate damage
Far more potent than CO2
Yes, you’re right
Vegetables are so very funny. A ha ha.
So much more evocative of flatulent humor than fat old white men sitting on smelly reamed out pipes that go BRAPPP!
Just because I’m fat and old and white...
... that doesn’t mean I’m adverse to spending time farting on my veranda as well, professor.
Things you learn on UHub!
If black people are going to be riding motorcycles, they will automatically be ILLEGAL motorcycles!
Because motorcycle = illegal, and black = double plus illegal!
Nope
Hells Angels, The Outlaws, Vanilla Ice's crew from that movie he was in, anyone of them holding a rally where the noise levels go over the law should be held accountable. Doesn't matter the color of their skin.
I’m white...
... and I’ll be there to distract police, racists and UHub’s NIMBY contingent.
White People Hate Motorcycles+ Urbanity
Here’s my theory on why white people in cities hate motorcycles exponentially more than other races... I think white people who live in the city automatically associate motorcycles and dirt bikes with country style living they’re trying to avoid and don’t like noises day time fun. I’ve been fascinated that it’s one of white people’s top quality of life concerns.
Of course there will be 1000 reasons given in the replies Justifying this baselevel vitriol for motorbikes but honestly it’s LOUD (dear lord not loud!!!) for like 10 seconds MAYBE twice a day at the most and sometimes I enjoy the spectacle when I’m in traffic..
This is the ultimate protest that white people will not get on board with. Ultimately of the its a fun way of freedom and transportation for people who otherwise have very little escape/freedom in their lives, just saying.
Loud for 10 seconds times a 100
Who wants their day to hear blasting at all hours the unnecessary gross noise of motorcycles throughout the day and night in front of your home? Add the boom boom cars. The noise is not just 10 seconds once. It is 10 seconds multiplied by the several vehicles creating the noise pollution.
This reasoning of, "It's just 10 seconds" is that same as justifying throwing a piece of trash on the ground. One piece of trash will disappear in to the sewer. Hundreds and throughout the city thousands of pieces of trash are just plain ugly pollution.
Same for the many 10 seconds of noise.
That's life in the big city.
That's life in the big city. People get to do whatever legal activity they desire, just like you get to choose to be a whiny bitch. Maybe you, sock puppet and kinopio can go to john costello's house up in Vermont for the day and experience true solitude and quiet. Maybe even have a nice quiet KKK rally in protest of the anti racism motorcycle protest.
Stink bombs anyone?
If 200 motorcycles were occupying an area near my home, engines even just idling, I would be tempted to throw stink bombs into their gathering. 200 idling motorcycles is still a lot of noise pollution. The noise generated in starting the motorcycles and riding along the street would just degrade the day for residents even more.
If a neighbor lobbies a racist word then protest is worthwhile. Sometimes shame is effective. Come by my neighborhood, bring signs, bring a bullhorn and humor, turn the ugliness of racist language into a celebration of difference with a block party on my street. An event that brings people together and shows the racist idiot that his hostility cuts him off from being part of a joyful community.
But only generating noise with motorcycles is violence against the right of my family and neighbors to peace and quiet. That's childish, stupid and rude.
Motorcycles
One idling motorcycle is too many.
Get psychological help
You have no right to illegally attack and bully people because you think having a quiet environment is sacred.
It isn't sacred.
It is not a right.
You are using this "quiet" bullshit as a pretense to be a tyrant and abuse people, control people and strip others of their rights.
I hope your family moves out so it will be very quiet.
Motorcyclists get to exercise their rights. You should use your right see a psychiatrist about your pathological need to tyrannize and abuse others by making up "rights".
anything to avoid talking about racism
That's what these comments are about. If a protest is convenient then nothing will change. This neighborhood is open to everyone. If you don't like the real America then leave. People don't need to be liked, they need to be treated with respect. I don't care if it makes my neighbor's mad. If you don't understand that all people deserve to be treated with respect then I don't want you as a neighbor.
It is disgusting that this thread got hijacked by trolls that want us to equate noisy hobbies and racism. Motorcycle noise is trivial in comparison to human rights.
If you don't care about pissing people off more with really
excessively loud noise for a long time, well you seem to not care much about other people either, cinnamngrl. Having motorcycles, or any motor vehicles idling for hours in a given area is noise pollution, and doing that indicates a lack of respect. A neighborhood can be open to anybody, but excessive noise is off-limits.
How would you like it if a bunch of college kids that lived near you regularly had loud, wild, drunken parties until all hours of the night, making it difficult, if not impossible for you to get a decent night's sleep so that you'd be able to go about your daily life/business./work/schoolor whatever, the next day, due to the loud music and noisy drunkenness all night, not to mention using your backyard as a toilet and/or vomitorium?
The idling of motorcycles for hours as an idea of a protest amounts to excessive noise pollution, which is just about as bad.
Also, if you have to live with your neighbors, not caring if you get them pissed off can backfire on you, in more ways than one, if you get the drift.
Your annoyance >>people's rights
Classic statement from someone raised with considerable wealth and privilege.
Ha ha ha!
How the fuck do YOU know about the way I was raised, Swirly-Babe, you little miss goody two-shoes?
I know you think that I was raised with an orchard of money trees, Swirly-Babe, but you're dead-assed wrong here. You know nothing about me, and you never, ever will, because I'm not the least bit interested in even meeting you in person, either.
You don't know a goddamned thing about how I was raised, the kind of life I lead, or where I'm coming from. You think you're great, but you're a nobody mixed with nothing.
You know
The conversation has gone downhill when the suburban crackers barge in to tell you about how you’re doing city living wrong and it’s because you’re a racist.
Medford is a city
More urban than where you live in White Roxbury.
What is your definition of suburban?
Land use in parts of Boston are very suburban - like the ones by Newton and Dedham. Cities that are outside Boston can be far more urban in their land use than those.
Take a train or a bus to Somerville, Medford, Malden, Lynn, Chelsea, and Revere. All are far more urban than West Roxbury or Hyde Park, and there is good beer out that way, too!
You haven't spent much time in Hyde Park, I take it?
Yes, there are some very suburban, even ruralish parts (look for the Deer Crossing signs), but there are also some densely populated parts as well.
Just as important, it is a part of the city of Boston. It's kind of a big city, you know.
You're forgetting one thing:
Neither Newton or Dedham are parts of Boston, and Dedham's not even a city.
Somerville, Lynn and Chelsea aren't part of Boston, either, but they're far more urban than Newton or Dedham.
Who are you calling a suburban cracker, Sock_Puppet?
Just curious.
The only place these
The only place these motorcycles are idling for hours is in your sick, twisted, white privileged mind.
3 paragraphs off topic
Your discomfort vs human rights. A person was threatened because she was black. Your dishonest fantasy about this upcoming peace rally is another kind of threat. It sounds like you are afraid of freedom.
Get some earplugs
And a thundershirt already.
Pretty clear that typical noise levels from legal activities are not your problem. What's in between your ears is the problem.
Disappointing that the
Disappointing that the motorcycle vs. bicycle crowd has hijakced a story about racism. Some people are obsessed with proving that their mode of transportation is better than others... why don't you put your motorized and non-motorized bike obsessions aside for a moment and focus on the topic at hand: racism.
Because
It isn't comfy and hurts my feelings!
I have to wave my privilege around like a banner and demand fictitious rights to peace and quiet so I don't have to examine it.
Today is the day!
I hope all you racists are climbing into kinopio's horse and buggy to beat feet out of the city during this tremendously loud and disruptive rally against racism involving motorcycles and a cookout. If only those uppity brown people would protest the way white people tell them too we could avoid the the horse shit here and on the road to whatever klan rally you find yourselves at today.
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