First, let me say I apologize for my lack of blogging. Life seems to get away from you at times…

Now, on to the meat of it. I was reading the NY Daily News online and came across an article “White grandfather stopped and cuffed for walking home with his black granddaughter” and I just couldn’t believe it. Well now of course that isn’t entirely true. I definitely believe it, but I guess it’s more that I don’t want to believe it. People often tell me that racial prejudices don’t exist and that I make it out to be more than it really is, but you know I just don’t buy that. And if I wanted proof, well here it is in the most simpliest form. A black girl and a white man together rings alarms in the minds of so many people. Allegedly there was a kidnapping of a black girl by a white man, but when you read, it seems more like there were reports of people spotting a white man who [must have] kidnapped a black girl. So for me, this seems more like they saw him and his granddaughter and thought, well they can’t possibily be together… or related… there must be something wrong here.

The saddest part of it all isn’t the racism they were faced with (though that is of great sadness), but what kind of impression of police that encounter will leave on the little girl. There was no apology, there was no kindness, there was only aggression and police. Those two often go hand in hand, but at 5 you should be faced with positive images of police, not that of threat and racism.

Check out the article: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/white-grandfather-stopped-cuffed-walking-home-black-grandaughter-article-1.1021896 

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