Fine for Racism?!

What this episode covers

Teaser: It sure does seem like many people in the world feel like being black in certain spaces is a crime. Or that lawyer guy from New York who was threatening to call ICE on a random employee. What a waste of time and tax payers money! Should there be a fine for Racist calls to police?   Today’s podcast ask the question if the isn’t a fine for racism aren’t we really saying that it is fine for racism?   Today we will talk about: We will look at the evidence and see if these are isolated incidents or there is a larger pattern of white people calling the police on folks who are just existing? We will try to understand what happens and what recourse law enforcement has when those calls are made. We will look at police options, and at what they at time do, which support racist class? Lastly we will look at how would this fine for racist calls look, and examine what we would do with those fines to push back on systemic racism.   Welcome back to the podcast! We are going to attempt a different ordering of material for the podcast so we are going to start right into the content you came here for and then talk activism, self-care and community stuff more towards the end!   First thing: How often do these racist calls to police happen?   Well upon a cursory glance after a google search at least daily!   As of May 19th there was the man who was a Black real estate investor that had inspecting the house – that he was buying. A woman Tiffany Albert called the police on the guy just taking pictures of the home he was planning to buy.   On May 17th there was a white man in NY Aaron Schlossberg threatened to call the ICE on someone simply speaking Spanish. It is interesting to note that he speaks Spanish and is willing to do so for extra money.   On May 16th there was the now infamous BBQ Becky incident where a woman Michelle Snider called the police on a family for using a charcoal grill and claiming they couldn’t use it. She was later seen crying as the officer showed up (seemingly out of nowhere).   On May 15th there was another white person who called the police at a Hobby Lobby for “resembling” at thief (being black?). Brian Spurlock was attempting to return a cutting machine with a receipt, original packaging, and everything else needed for a return. When the manager said he had to call corporate – he instead called police. And the police did a background check and though there were no issue. The officer allowed him to get his return but still threatened to kick him out if he didn’t leave right after for “trespassing”       Sarah Braasch, the white student who called campus police on Lolade Siyonbola after she committed the unforgivable crime of napping in her own dormitory’s common room. Campus officers said they checked Siyonbola’s ID against the university system and let her go, and later informed Braasch that her call was “not a police matter.” But the late-night incident has set off a bigger conversation about what Yale alum and writer A.T. McWilliams called the “white space” of his alma mater.   Here are the things that black people can’t do in the United States in 2018 without a white bystander calling the police on them:   eat at a Waffle House;   work out

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