Maybe their relationship wasn't on a firm foundation if that broke them up.

Evaluating a person based on a single fact about them is the kind of keen, thorough, analytical thinking that gives me faith in democracy!

If you found out the person you were dating was a criminal (according to the authorities), would you stick around?

Sauntore Thomas when the bank called the cops:

From the article:

But when he tried to open a savings account for the money at the Livonia branch, staff said they would need to verify the cheques. The assistant bank manager - herself a black woman - went to a backroom, before returning and telling Mr Thomas their team member who verifies cheques was not there. She allegedly asked him how he got the money.

Ten minutes later - after Mr Thomas said he would wait in the lobby for the staff member to return - four police officers arrived.

I'm taking bets the asst. bank manager was told she had to ask by someone else behind the scenes. Then that someone called the cops.

WTH is a beat cop going to do though? How would they know if the check is legit or not? They should have deposited it and waited to see if the funds came in.

Reality is often loonier than fiction.

A small tidbit :

Police began an investigation into Mr Thomas for fraud during the incident, but have since closed the case.

So non only the police didn't need to be involved but they also tried to find fraud charges instead of helping the victim of racism...

Republicans hate this infinite money glitch.

The secret is that you go to a credit union instead of a bank, and you DEPOSIT it instead of cash it.

They will have ample time to verify the check through official channels, and you can access the money after it has successfully transferred from the payer into the account.

Oh like you wish for a million dollars but everyone you interact with is lawsuit levels of racist. You can get the money but can't cash it. You can sue endlessly but you end up wasting all your time in court

Unfortunately, I had a middle aged white dude make that argument to me while I was a bartender. This was a little before the pandemic, in one of the least diverse states in the U.S. (population is ~90% white people). He said that in his entire life, he had never witnessed or experienced anyone be racist to anyone else, ever, and the only reason why people think it's an issue is because the news is overly sensational and tries to divide us. I tried to tell him his experiences are not universal and cannot be taken as representative of the experiences of a person of color, but he was not having it. Since I was about half his age at the time, he said I didn't have enough life experience to know that. This is despite the fact that I have several friends with first hand experience with racism in the same state he lived. They've been called slurs, followed around in stores, harassed by police and school administrations in public school, been told to go back to their own country (even though this is their own country, and the person telling them this is not indigenous), and numerous other examples.

It was a frustrating conversation that didn't go anywhere. It's especially disheartening that he at least recognized that the news tries to divide us, but then started repeating Fox News taking points when I tried sharing some of the things my friends have been through.

Let me introduce you to the majority of my conservative coworkers.

....a lot of people say that.

lucky you for not being surrounded by fucking idiots, i guess tho?

America without the racism would be like ice cream with no vanilla flavoring. Not even the racists would be trying to tell you its not there.

Lmao please tell me where in the US I can move where not a single soul says those exact words unironically.

Oh man. It must be nice living where you are.

Racists and most of the Bible Belt says that.

It's only racism if it comes from the USA region of North America. Otherwise, it's just sparkling discrimination.

tell yourself whatever you need to so feel good about yourself...

racism is wrong and we all should strive to fight it