This kind of stuff isn't just an inconvenience for people of colour. It can quite literally get them killed, as we've seen with Philando Castille and countless others.
Woman says she called police when black Airbnb guests didn't wave at her
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/10/us/ai...rnd/index.html
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"They have a right not to smile," said attorney Jasmine Rand at a Thursday morning news conference in New York. "We don't want to live in an America where black people are forced to smile at white people to preserve their lives."
The three black guests -- Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, Donisha Prendergast and Komi-Oluwa Olafimihan -- were also traveling with a fourth guest, who is a white woman. But according to the their attorneys, the neighbor only told police about three suspicious black people.
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