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STOP ACCEPTING THE UNACCEPTABLE

 When I say FIRE ALL OF THE WHITE COPS FROM ELSEWHERES!, it’s so our CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN won’t have to do what we do when approached by police:


Keep your gaze down and don’t eyeball them directly, even when they say LOOK AT ME WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!


Move unnaturally slow, especially when you’re scared out of your wits and have a gun and/or flashlight pointed in your face.


If they say STAY STILL AND LAY ON THE GROUND, treat it like Simon Says and only do the first one. It’ll save your life.


If they repeat the same command, don’t ask them WHICH ONE, as that will be interpreted as sassing, making their hashtagging you in their minds justified, 


since that’s all the proof they need that you’re not a GOOD N***ER who knows your place and theirs in society.


Better to play dumb and stay silent. Use your regular voice as they’ve caught on that Dat negro voice is not subservient but mocking.


If you’re in a car when stopped, fully roll down the window with both hands either on the steering wheel or better yet, 


both palms facing outwards outside the open window with your license and registration already on the dashboard.


A famous Black actor once spoke about how the cop had a gun pointed at his head from behind where he couldn’t see, yelling out commands because the window was up and the air conditioning was blasting;


so make sure to turn off the radio and air conditioning and roll that window down, even in the blistering heat or freezing cold.


If you do have a registered firearm in the glove compartment, don’t volunteer that information as that’ll get you killed as well (see Philando Castile).


If they ask, “Do you know why I stopped you?”, the correct answer is “No, sir.” And if you’re Black and fool enough to break the law in this racist country 


either by drinking, speeding or swerving then you’re putting your life in your own hands and I’ve got nothing for ya.


99 times out of a hundred, if you do these things, they won’t ask you to step out of the car.


Black cops will tell you to continue asking AM I UNDER ARREST? NO? WELL THEN I’M FREE TO LEAVE.


The reality is that not one of my Black friends who drives has ever said this when stopped.


But if you do have a cop in the family or a cop acquaintance, that’s the time to name drop.


Ex: Does officer Helms still work at the 12th precinct? His kid and mine went to the same school and we used to grab a bite together after drop off.


Until we fire ALL of the white cops from elsewheres patrolling and brutalizing Black spaces, practice this repeatedly with your CHILDREN.


But don’t just accept the unacceptable. Ban the white gaze comments entirely from your pages because your closest buds STILL haven’t a clue!


And then thinking that they do only perpetuates this savage process. Be well.

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