But the police never would have been called if the black teenagers hadn’t seemed out of place to the white neighbors. Why would this woman assume that her black neighbor was trespassing? The community pool, like most of the places we work, shop, eat, and goof off in America, is what sociologists call a “white space,” or an area where black Americans feel and look, at least to many white people, out of place. That black teenager lived in the neighborhood. “Go back to your Section 8 home,” said one white woman to a black teenager at the pool before slapping her. They saw black people who didn’t belong in the mostly white neighborhood. They didn’t see the invited guests of a black neighbor getting a little rowdy at an end-of-school pool party. Before Eric Casebolt shoved a black girl’s face into the ground and pulled a gun on her two unarmed friends, white neighborhood residents at the pool assumed that all those black teenagers were in the wrong place. Please take care and I hope you have a wonderful day.Craig Ranch North Community Pool in McKinney, Texas was not a “whites only” pool, but it might as well have been. I spoke on the issue briefly at this link.ġ) Stock Market Investing class meets TODAY at 11 am EST. You can come in to ask me questions and hear the stocks I like for this week by logging in at .Ģ) I am hosting a free event tonight at 7 pm EST called "How to build financial security without doing it all by yourself." You can register for this event by visiting this link. It made me think about how Joe Biden spent so many years eliminating black men through mass incarceration while refusing to address the drug addiction of his own son.
I wanted you to know about a few things happening today:ġ) I saw a pretty interesting image of President Joe Biden flanked by VP Kamala Harris and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. I discuss more of my thoughts below, and I welcome you to join the discussion today on Dr Boyce TV. Dr Randal Pinkett, Philana Patterson and Dr Jeffrey Robinson have a book called "Black Faces in White Places," which made me think about the image that you see above.
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