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Jamil Smith @JamilSmith
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Where can we go? That was what I kept asking after two black men were arrested just for waiting in a Starbucks, and a black boy was nearly killed for knocking on a white neighbor’s door. I wrote about them—and @Beyonce and @kendricklamar—for @RollingStone. rol.st/2EZDY9j
Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, the two men arrested last week for waiting in a Philadelphia Starbucks, talked to @GMA. They arrived at the café at 4:35pm for a meeting. The store manager, who never asked them to leave, called 911 at 4:37pm. Two minutes.
“You go from being someone who’s just trying to be an entrepreneur, having your own dreams and aspirations, and then this happens,” Rashon Nelson told @emarvelous about him and his friend Donte Robinson being arrested in Starbucks. Read the interview. apne.ws/8SkFcR4
Please read this conversation about the Starbucks incident and how it illuminates the difficulty we so often face in being black in public spaces. Especially if you are white. @craftingmystyle, @tressiemcphd, @jbouie, and @GeeDee215 share a lot of wisdom. slate.me/2EXmHxn
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