Driving While Brown 0
Tony Norman, writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, discusses Arizona’s xenophobia. A nugget:
By the way, injustice rarely stops at well-defined borders of race or class once it gets rolling. One day, someone is going to ask us all for our respective papers. Consider this a down payment.
Clarence Page draws on his experiences to anticipate life in Arizona:
My American passport came in handy on a Johannesburg street when an Afrikaner police officer said “Wys my jou paspoort.” (Show me your passport.) I was strolling-while-black. He didn’t need any more reasonable suspicion than that.
My views haven’t changed.
This is an evil law that reveals the worst aspects of the American character: bigotry, prejudice, xenophobia, hatred, and racism, just to mention a few.
This is a must watch:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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John Stewart via TPM.
