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This time, a black father was pushing his son in a Washington, D.C., park, and a white woman saw fit to notify park security about a suspicious man walking the bike path with a baby.
It should make no difference that that man, Donald Sherman, is a professional, a lawyer, because to some folks, he will always be a scary black guy.
Sherman explained in a May 10 Facebook post that on the day in question, his son was not feeling well, so he stayed home with him.
After some time, baby Caleb seemed better, so he took the little guy out for some fresh air at Kingman and Heritage Islands Park, man-made islands in the Anacostia River, not too far from his gentrified neighborhood. Sherman wrote:
30 minutes into our stroll I got flagged by a security officer in one of those cars marked Special Police on the side. I was a bit confused as to whether she was looking for me to stop but she honked twice and pulled over so I got the picture. She told me that she received a complaint from someone who said there was a suspicious man walking on the bike path with a baby. She said that when the complainant was asked to describe my race, she declined.
What is clear to anyone with eyes, however, is that Sherman is dark-skinned while his son is not, perhaps prompting the woman to think that a black man somehow stole a white baby. I guess.
Sherman noted that the only person he saw on their walk was a white lady on a bike who veered off as Caleb and I were walking in her direction and that she was the one who saw fit to report me to security.
Thankfully, Sherman reported that his interaction with the security officer was pleasant and that she just wanted to let him know what happened.
https://www.theroot.com/black-father-stopped-by-security-after-white-woman-call-1826082634?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=theroot_twitter
LisaM
(27,808 posts)Take them out and walk them around in the park in a stroller on nice days.
Me.
(35,454 posts)she would've yelled poison
LisaM
(27,808 posts)Can you imagine???
one of the commenters on that page said pretty much the same thing
wonkwest
(463 posts)"He's hiding in plain sight! This man is a genius."
Cheeerist on a cracker.
LisaM
(27,808 posts)Thank God for sane cops.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)Last edited Wed May 16, 2018, 09:38 PM - Edit history (1)
while the right desperately tries to start a race war in their own minds by micro and macro aggressions against people of colour minding their own business..
MariaCSR
(642 posts)byronius
(7,394 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Her wife, the childrens biological mother, is white. So Sykes said that when she takes the kids to Disneyland, she tells them theyd better stay close to her because if they get lost, it will take forever to get them back.
Lonestarblue
(9,986 posts)These white snowflakes need to find an all-white country and move. That way, they wont have their sensibilities offended to see a person of color in public. There probably is no such country, and of course it would also be one that restricts tourism to white people only.
mcar
(42,309 posts)IronLionZion
(45,434 posts)I worry about this kind of stuff when we go to the zoo or a museum or something.
For those who are not familiar, that neighborhood is not that gentrified yet and won't be for some time. It's still very black by a large margin. And DC has a lot of diversity and mixed race families because we're too busy to hate. A lot of new people who moved here from elsewhere can't handle it sometimes and it bothers them.
lame54
(35,287 posts)And their leashes
2naSalit
(86,586 posts)cab67
(2,992 posts)My wife (who, like me, is white) was a foster mother. One of the infants she fostered was African American. Neither my wife nor I ever had the police called on us when we took the baby out. We got some dirty looks (mostly from white people) and some surprised looks (from both black and white people), but no one acted as though we were being suspicious.
I wonder why no one called security on us?
Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)Is this the new plan of the "deplorables", aka, Trump peeps? God, please help us all!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)At least, that's how it feels to me. I get a greater and greater sense of both outrage and dread when I read about these incidents. To live like that....I can't even fathom what that must be like.
Someone should have done something about that shirt, though.
JI7
(89,249 posts)also if i was going to stereotype him after seeing his pic it would be that he was some nerdy type.