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Senator Tim Scott talks about being stopped by the police...

submitted by SFOGuy

8 years 4 months ago

Normally, this isn't my political guy. However, normally he doesn't give this kind of speech.

He's a US Senator. One of the most powerful people in Washington DC---one of 100 Senators.
He's been stopped 7 times this year by police; 7 times as a US Senator.

In this personal speech, he tries to get his own party to listen to what it feels like to be "targeted for nothing more than being yourself..."

At 8:21, he describes his personal experiences. At 13:00, it becomes even odder. This has an astonishingly low number of views on YouTube...

Fear because: even as US Senator, he has experienced fear, anger, and frustration in dealing with the police.
I don't know what the answer is. But this was a pretty compelling description of what the problem of being black is like from someone who is otherwise, ostensibly, so privileged and powerful.

2 Comments

artician

says...

I don't normally care what people have to say when it's read off a paper written by someone else, but...

"He's been stopped 7 times this year by police"

I haven't been stopped by police that many times in my life, and I'm almost 40.

Oh right. I'm not black. (obviously)

SFOGuy

says...

I can't imagine what that would be like. To be a US Senator---and have the adrenaline and fear and humiliation 7 times a year. I've been pulled over twice, and never addressed/accosted on foot by police for traffic issues in the last past 16 years. Each time, adrenaline, fear, anxiety...once I was speeding; once, he finally recognized that he'd pulled over the wrong blue vehicle (was looking for another one)...I can remember each in detail.

7 times in one year. As a Senator. I don't really think I can comprehend.

artician

said: