06-28-2019, 07:21 PM
This is only in the realm of our awareness because the story has some built-in irony that makes it appealing. That makes me stop and reflect on the persistence with which Black people, just doing their jobs as I would do, but without the benefit of my skin tone or an ironic twist in their story, experience the skepticism, humiliation, frustration, anger, and loss of time, money, and drive that comes with being interrogated by cops like this.
It's a helpful, if not pleasant, thing to sit and think about.
It's a helpful, if not pleasant, thing to sit and think about.