[Augustine23580]

First of all, I’m not going to lie and say I’ve never noticed this. Not all black people walk slowly and not all slow walkers are black, but it is something you notice, especially in ‘crowd’ situations such as shopping malls. It only becomes an issue if one person wants to walk slowly, another person wants to walk quickly, and the slow walker is impeding the fast one, or put another way, the fast walker is about to trample the slow one. I’m afraid that it does come across as passive-aggressive, whether intentional or not, as if to say ‘I am walking at my own pace, and what’s more, I was not put on this earth to cater to white people, so if you want to walk fast, you’re going to have to wait until there is some clearance between us, and even then, you’ll have to shove around me’. On the other hand, my wife and I (both of us are white) were in the store the other day, and a man (white) was right on our heels. I motioned for my wife to step aside and muttered something like ‘let’s let this man get past us — run us down, why don’t you?’ loudly enough for him to hear it. A little mutual consideration all the way around could help human relations in general and race relations in particular.

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Name : Augustine23580, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 39, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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