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MrScorpio

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Mon May 21, 2018, 11:34 AM May 2018

White Fragility Digest #8: 21 May 2018 [View all]

Woman Calls Cops On Credentialed Black Photographer Who Was Just Doing His Job
Here's another example of being Black in White spaces.




Written By Nigel Roberts

The cops were called to a premier horse racing event to arrest an African American who was just doing his job but apparently made a White person feel nervous.

Photographer Arturo Holmes was covering the 2018 Preakness Stakes in Baltimore on Saturday. Even though Holmes had proper credential, he was racially profiled.

Here’s what photojournalist J.M. Giordano witnessed:




https://newsone.com/3800845/preakness-horse-race-cops-called-on-black-photographer/





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