"If Trayvon Had Only Answered In an Appropriate Manner There Would have Been No Problem"

[Rozlee]

106. Actually, as Hispanic mothers, that's what we tell our kids

My kids are half-white, but my son "tans well." My half-siblings were half-Cajun and married Hispanics and African-Americans and their kids are dark. In the mostly Anglo neighborhood we lived in back in the 90s, we had a couple of white kids that would vandalize the neighborhood and be wandering up and down the street until the wee hours of the morning. But, who did the local cops stop all the time? My son and my biracial nephew. They'd be walking down the street with backpacks filled with their fishing gear and they'd get stopped and made to open their backpacks; they'd take the shortcut through the alley from the street and a cruiser would follow them and question them. My son was even in front of our home on the sidewalk one time and two cops stopped to ask him what he was doing there. I finally confronted them at that time and told them I was going to report them for being child molesters. But, I always did tell them to speak to the cops respectfully because they have all the power and they have the guns. And in a court of law, they always believe the cop. My grand-nephews were stopped at a traffic sign last year and the officer told my grandnephew driving that he hadn't made a complete stop. My grandnephew said he had. The cop said you had to stop for a full 20 seconds. The hell! When my grandnephew decided to be a smartass and say, "I could microwave a pizza in 20 seconds," they were both arrested.