Got Tint?

Got Tint?

Unfortunately, in the U.S. it has become commonplace to hear people of color associated with crime, gangs, and poverty. Bitterly, such tittle-tattle gives rise to narrow-mindedness and bigotry. In both Robyn Meredith’s “DWB: Driving While Black” and Leslie Marmon Silko’s “The Border Patrol State,” the reader clearly gains insightful information about the presence of discrimination and unnecessary treatment toward people of color in our existing law enforcement.
First, both Meredith and Silko present incidences in which colored drivers felt, for no particular reason, they were stopped by law enforcement and treated unfairly due to the color of their skin. Giving an unmistakable example of stopping a driver because he is colored, Meredith describes how Detroit’s Mayor was pulled over by police officers:
‘They had pulled guns and put me in the back seat,’ the Mayor said. They went
through his Cadillac Seville, looking for evi...