Oh, Daniele Watts. I saw this story
yesterday of her being arrested and handcuffed by the LAPD and
thought the same thing I usually do when a Black person (Blacker if
you're cool) is arrested: unless you're shot or dead, how is this
news? I read her post as well as her boyfriends about this whole
thing and shit just didn't quite add up to me. I know that since I'm
Black that I'm supposed to side with Black people no matter what. OJ
is innocent. Obama is a great president. Tupac is still alive. None
of those things are true by the way. But then I heard the audio from
the arrest. Oh, and just like every other article I must mention that
she is Black and her boyfriend is White.
“As I was sitting in the back of the
police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home
frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong.
I felt his shame, his anger, and my own feelings of frustration for
existing in a world where I have allowed myself to believe that
'authority figures' could control my BEING… my ability to
BE!!!!!!!” Watts wrote.
