Jack Kemp

The money quote: It's easy to point to extreme examples, like the Vox-mentioned white graduate student who called campus police on a black female student napping in a common area, the two black men who had police called on them for playing basketball at a gym one of them was a member of, and the three black teenagers wrongfully accused of shoplifting at a St. Louis Nordstrom Rack, as evidence of some sort of societal racism at work that needs to be somehow rooted out with another draconian law.

Jack


If You See Something and Say Something, You'll Probably Get Called a Racist

Victor Stevenson - a black man who owns a San Francisco lemonade business called Gourmnade - was standing outside his shop last June before business hours, on the phone with his security company when four police officers approached him. Turns out, someone who thought Stevenson was breaking into the business had called the police.

Stevenson cooperated with the officers and, even by his own account, they were polite and professional to him. He had to provide identification and prove that he was indeed standing in front of his own business, but other than that nothing else was hurt but his pride.
But unfortunately, the race of those involved made what should have been a non-event a national story.

Read the rest at Townhall.

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