Loading ...I worked with a black news producer from Louisiana for awhile in Honolulu. He described driving around Washington DC with a white girl coworker, and getting pulled over for “DWB”… “Driving While Black” he called it.
He told the cop straight up he was a news producer and there was a hot mic in the car, and the camera car was watching them. The cop grumpily checked his paperwork and quickly told him to ‘have a nice night’. What struck me was his matter-of-fact description of “Driving While Black”. He knew it was coming, and he was prepared for it.
He finished up his law degree and is now a lawyer in New Orleans.