I gotta say, this is an honest piece of writing. I can see how my experience as a White male playing this game is vastly different. Things I just would never consider dangerous (going for a walk at night, exercising at night, pokemon at night) very well are for some. This story in total makes me sad that you must live in that reality, always wondering how an engagement will go (especially with law enforcement). The stress and anxiety generated alone would be too much for me. I white and nervous when encountered by law enforcement, but i suspect that multiplied by decades of brutality, profiling, and racism give you a more intense perspective.

The good news is, even though things like this wont change overnight, people that have the courage to open the doors and start the dialogue will prevail. We just need to keep talking, issues like this change on a social level slowly, but they WILL CHANGE. And the more we have honest discussions like this, the sooner it will get better. If everyone could just recognize each other for what they have in common as autonomous people instead of grouped races, that would also be a step forward. Embrace the diversity, studies show diverse groups create the most innovative solutions. Our experiences are all different, and this makes them all powerful when combined together.

We are all people, and we should all try to be the very best as no people ever were.