although i didn't get as many photos as i wanted to, i want to give a huge shoutout to my friends who made this project possible.
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| two years ago, i had the cops called on me for having a suspicious-looking car in my friend's neighborhood. |
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seven weeks ago, i went to a
restaurant with group of friends for a wedding rehearsal dinner. they all got their food within ten minutes of ordering (including a guy in the wedding party who came thirty minutes late); i got my food had finished, five minutes before we left. i was the only person of african-american descent. |
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| four weeks ago, i was
driving home from a
church service & driving through a sort of dilapidated neighborhood when a police-officer pulled me over. i was going under the speed limit and was wearing my seatbelt. the officer asked me to get out of my car & shone a light in my car. he furthered to ask where i was coming from and i explained that i was leaving church and asked was there something wrong, he answered no, that they were just trying to prevent further crime in the community. |
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| three saturdays ago, i was returning home from my shift at work when i was greeted by the cops in front of my apartment; i was informed that one of my neighbors had filed a report against me for being a suspicious looking male walking around the neighborhood & was suspected of a break-in (i've lived there well over a year now.) he proceeded to ask why i was taking photographs. i told him i was a photographer and then he jotted down some profile information about me, in case there were "further troubles in the neighborhood." |
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| this post isn't to shame police-officers or to incite some race war. |
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| but to raise awareness that intolerance is prevalent. so before we're so so quick to say that #AllLivesMatter or #AllAreEqual |
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| maybe we should take a walk in our brothers' &sisters' shoes. |