Interview with Melissa Harville-Lebron
January 18, 2019Interview with Mr. Wave
January 24, 2019
In 2018, there was a rise in White Americans calling the police on African-Americans for things as simple as swimming in a pool, opening their own lemonade stand, to waiting in Starbucks for your lawyer to close a real estate deal.
Here is the list that were highly profiled:
- Operating a lemonade store
- Golfing too slowly
- Waiting for a friend at Starbucks
- Barbecuing at a park
- Working out at a gym
- Campaigning door to door
- Moving into an apartment
- Mowing the wrong lawn
- Shopping for prom clothes
- Napping in a university common room
- Asking for directions
- Not waving while leaving an Airbnb
- Redeeming a coupon
- Selling bottled water on a sidewalk
- Eating lunch on a college campus
- Riding in a car with a white grandmother
- Babysitting two white children
- Wearing a backpack that brushed against a woman
- Working as a home inspector
- Working as a firefighter
- Helping a homeless man
- Delivering newspapers
- Swimming in a pool
- Shopping while pregnant
- Driving with leaves on a car
- Trying to cash a paycheck
