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Originally Posted by bigtmac19
I was watching The Social yesterday on CTV, one of the hosts is black, she was formerly married and lived in LA for a few years. She said one day she was outside their home with her husband, and it was a nice day so she said let's go for a walk. He told her he had to go in the house and get his ID first and when she questioned him about why he needed that, he told her that he couldn't go anywhere casually like that in LA as a black man, he always had to have ID with him, in case he was stopped by police. She was so shocked, being raised in Canada, she never thought about anything like that, he being born and raised in the US - it was part of his daily life. Being concerned about having ID to go for a walk!
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I can understand his concern...but I wonder at the folks who don't walk around with ID at all. But then, I never don't have my wallet/id with me unless I'm wandering around inside my house. I just don't leave the house without my wallet. Maybe it's just me.