This week, new Harris-Stowe State University president Dwaun Warmack told me the story of a call he received from a young black student who just a couple of nights earlier had been pulled over by police.
The student, with a high GPA and a clean record, was driving home in north St Louis County. His car apparently fit the description of another vehicle that had been involved in a crime. He was pulled over and taken out of the vehicle by police, frisked and placed on the ground face first while police ran his tags and driver’s license.
Police quickly realized they had the wrong car, the wrong young, black man. They let him go.
But that young man’s worldview, Warmack told me, is changed forever.Yes, it's changed to prefer a world where police fail to stop suspects due to fears of racism and so crime flourishes, perhaps to affect him or his family one day…
Justice is less of that happening to young black men in St Louis.Which pretty much guarantees that more crime will happen to them instead.
I fail to see how that helps anyone other than the likes of Louis Farrakhan…
4 comments:
Dwaun Warmack?!! Ffs how can anyone take him srsly?
XX This week, new Harris-Stowe State University president Dwaun Warmack told me the story of a call he received from a young black student XX
Aye, right. Because on being pulled over your FIRST choice of someone to telephone is the Uni President.... right?
"Dwaun Warmack?!! Ffs how can anyone take him srsly?"
Mostly, I suspect, other college professors!
"Aye, right. Because on being pulled over your FIRST choice of someone to telephone is the Uni President.... right?"
Well, it IS Merica...
Sorry, but while I have little sympathy for the race hustlers and the race relations industry, the police response in this case seems excessive. Did they really have to make him lie on the ground, face down? Couldn't they just have asked for his licence and vehicle registration and, having confirmed he was not the man they were looking for, send him on his way?
For those who don't have a problem with this, remember it's possible you could, at some point, be driving the same make and model of car as is wanted in connection with a crime.
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