The purpose of this channel is to spread awareness about mobility justice surrounding Black Lives in marginalized communities within Los Angeles and beyond. While also implementing BIPOC community engagement to bring in Love, Peace, and Happiness and the need to make the spaces to hear each other's narrative.
Ground Truths Network (GTN) is an effort that also evolved out of the work of Ride In Living Color (RILC), a grassroots bicycling advocacy effort initiative that was created by Yolanda Davis- Overstreet, in 2011.
Beautifully said. We're never truly going to be safe in this country but don't let that be the reason why you don't cycle. It's so much fun even if they try to discourage you from doing it. Start cycling today.
If this guy is getting hassled cos of skin colour it's his own skin colour thats doing it. Most of America has very large black populations. Race baiting Jew Tube at it again.
.. i talked about this with my highschool cop back in the late 90's .. and then again at a job training session with the poh-leece, working for Community And Neighbourhood Services...
They call themselves Klan here...proudly. Saying, "I'm gonna run him over, next time I see him! I'm insured!" Klan cop protected. #Lakeport #California ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cs-wKxCe9lM.html
When I saw the title of this, I had to watch because cycling is already a sporting skill, but from what I see on You Tube, riding a bike while black is an Extreme xxx Sport in USA. I am fortunate to be in Africa.
L.L Cool J "Illegal Search". It seems that whatever transport black Americans choose to use, it's going to piss-off the police for some reason. As a middle aged white English bloke, and daily Cyclist, I have never experienced this level of prejudice, and can only imagine the problems that my fellow Cyclists in the USA must suffer just because of their skin-colour; and quiet frankly it sickens and disgusts me that they have to deal with such outdated shit as this. All Cyclists are family, and when one of us suffers we all feel it. Just because we haven't all experienced it doesn't mean that we don't share your anger and feel your frustration.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on the video, unfortunately these racial profiling have been going on for so long now. We hope to provide individuals with ways of staying safe in the streets.
It's strange watching from "the other side of the pond" 🇬🇧 as they say, to see America - arguably the most powerful nation on Earth - still being held back by such deeply entrenched racism, and they don't seem to be able to move past it. Keep cycling 🚴♀️ stay strong, and be the better person in spite of it.
Black People fit every description, no matter if its male or female racial profile. I'm waiting for BMB ( Breathing While Black ) until racist cop and white people Stop and start be held accountable this will keep happening, THINK
I brought my nephew the $500. mountain bike for Christmas. The first week riding his bicycle....I got a call from the police 🤔 & he was being accused of riding a stolen bicycle...in fact they said he stole it. He was about 13 and had just lost his mother that past November.
I totally identify. Over the years have learned how to travel down streets where I'm not likely to get harassed by the police. It's happened so much to me I have become desensitized. I have adapted to this normal thing that happens to Black bicyclist.
That is very unfortunate and no one should ever have to go through that. Black cyclists deserve and should have just as much respect as white cyclists do.
try exercising your "right to travel" but before you do. You must research what the. words driver, operate, vehicle, passenger, transport, and traffic mean. You have been extorted, by the police, your whole life. Verbal judo is 100% real, never acquiesce to unwanted services the police corporations offer.
honestly wow this video spoke directly to how people feel. As a black person knowing the level of racism that is out there it is hard to put your life at risk on a bicycle. you feel much safer in the metal cage of a car when you know any racist might swerve and do your harm and there is no just, fair and impartial legal system to depend on. they will likely never face consequences for it, instead you the victim will be blamed even though you cycled following all of the rules and took every precaution. in the end of the day it is a black man's word against the white man's word. it's quite sad but every day more and more anecdotal evidence comes in and every day the demonic double standards of the system are revealed naked in all it's ugliness for the whole world to see.
The only way this ends for our people is if we pick up and leave the USA for good headed to Africa as if these people haven't changed in all these years we must face the facts that they aren't ever going to change as just too many of them simple do not want too. So, if we are to have a better life away from all this ill treatment we must leave the land of our captivity.
Edward Mitchell you are not living in a land of captivity! How dare you say that, you are not in jail unless you break a law ! Live honestly and you will be treated like white people !
why should black people leave? the United States know more belongs to white people than it does black people. perhaps it belongs even more to black people as they came here in peace considering that they were brought here against their will and did not brutalize and kill the natives of this land. the facts of the matter is the United States belongs to black people as much as anyone else if not more so. they built the United States and the United States is indebted to them. we cannot live in the negative historical mindset of the past however, Injustice cannot be accepted to keep on going forward. only so many apologies can be accepted for so long.
why, why must a black person justify their existence. no instead the complaints of citizens should be taken seriously and if police officers have so many justified complaints against them they should be fired. let us work towards that sort of policy and statute law change instead of living with a security blanket wherever you go. instead of living in terror of what little mistake you might have made that they will feel justified to squash you like a bug using the book. while by contrast they buy burgers and fries for white mass murderers. the police should be held to account. the police should be defunded and the money should be reallocated to prevention, to early childhood education, to government backed loans for business startups especially in disaffected communities, furthermore the police should all be forced to wear live streaming body cams that stream the live video to a civilian oversight body. they should be immediately fired for tampering with said devices or for not activating those devices more than a set number of times.
When black biking is talked about 2 things comes to mind . The first is the group of white kids cycling along Holoway Rd. North London , a group of black guys stepped into the road and stabbed an 18 year old kid in the heart and killed him to steel his bike. The second was a game black kids engaged in , they named it " Happy Slapping " basicly when a girl was cycling by , black kids would step out and slap them in the face. And as we are on the subject " The Knock Out Game " This is where black guys knocking out white people with one punch . This has resulted in the death of white people . Stop playing the victim !
So 2 isolated incidents come to mind where black people caused harm to white people , when its known that white people caused harm to at least 30 million or more blacksk since 1619 in North America.0
Thanks for the info. I just bought an expensive ebike. It hasn't happened yet but I'm certain I'll go thru some unwanted attention by certain people. I'm only trying to lose weight in order to maintain my health. God bless us all.
@@gibson2675 Only in America. Most states moron in America have very large black populations like New York, Atlanta City, Georgia, Alabama etc. Police forces are 80 percent black moron. So if this dude is getting hassled, its by his own skin color.
