The Threat of Integration
I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction with the Los Angeles Police Department. And yet in the last two weeks I have had two separate and rather suspicious encounters with the police. Could it have anything to do with the fact that I rent out three bedrooms in my house to three African American males friends? Let me describe these encounters for you and ask you to ask yourselves if the same police response would have taken place if my three friends/housemates were White or Asian and not African American or Latino, like one of my previous renters was.