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GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Late last evening on a news program, I heard a young educated black woman put into words what the media is not saying. It’s alluded to, but never really said with enough outrage.

This young woman told of her great grand-father in 1899 being arrested because he didn’t have his wallet on him when he was stopped and questioned by the police. He tried to explain that he had left it by mistake at work. He was still arrested and put in jail where he was beaten. Eventually his family found him and his employer produced his wallet and papers.  It was sometime before he was released.

She used this illustration to show that in over one hundred years when a black man became president, he is still asked to show his papers. Now the same black man is expected to show transcripts of his college grades to prove to a bigoted white man that he actually got there on his own merit.

This bigoted white man has been married three times, and two of those wives were not even born in the United States. He also has weird hair, which should be enough reason to arrest him.