incredibly tired of it.
i don’t dress like a gangsta thug, white or black. i don’t give everyone the evil eye to look badass tough. i don’t go up’to people saying they aren’t giving me respect. i don’t’wear gang gear or tattoos. i don’t riot when courts rule differently than i’d like. i don’t shoot other people over arguments. i don’t beat people and think solving my problems with violence is the standard way it should go. i don’t use swears every other word as nouns, adjjectives, adverbs and verbs. i don’t go to places where i know there probably will be trouble. i don’t play loud music so my neighbors will hate me and call the police. i don’t do drugs. i don’t drink. i don’t smoke. my definitionof a “good boy” is totally different than theirs. i have never fought with an officer of the law. or lipped off to them
i don’t do any stupid crap these people do, that get them into trouble. they do stupid crap and it just draws the trouble right to them.
In other words, you act civilized.
My parents gave me the same advice on how to act towards authority: stay calm; stay respectful; be unthreatening; be cooperative; that the author seems to think only ‘people of color’ had to impart to their offspring. It’s just good sense, and it has worked for me through 55 years of traffic stops and other encounters with LE.
And you probably don’t rob convenience stores and then walk down the middle of the street basically begging cops to stop you.