Can’t agree with #4. Sorry.
One of my closest friends is a big, tall , well-built elegant black man. Nothing about him says “the hood.”
He likes to ride his bike, and pre-Covid he would ride over the bridge to a town called Ocean Ridge. It’s a small town on the ocean. There’s a street right along the ocean with houses and condos on the west side where everyone likes to walk and ride. It’s not private, but you kinda have to know it’s there.
So the first couple of times he rode there he was stopped by the cops. In a way he had the last laugh when he showed them his Broward County Sheriff’s Dept. ID. He is head of their IT security, and the Ocean Ridge cops are, well, nowhere near his level .
You think the cops would recognize him after a while. But he finally asked me if I would ride with him so he doesn’t get busted for bike riding while black. This guy is frigging brilliant - an adjunct professor, etc. It’s so sad.
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