Feeling Rebloggy
According to Chikesia Clemons' mother,
...who spoke with Alabama Local, her daughter and her friend Canita Adams — who filmed the incident — had requested plastic flatware for their to-go meals. They were reportedly told it would cost them an additional 50 cents, and requested the number for their corporate offices to complain.
...who spoke with Alabama Local, her daughter and her friend Canita Adams — who filmed the incident — had requested plastic flatware for their to-go meals. They were reportedly told it would cost them an additional 50 cents, and requested the number for their corporate offices to complain.
Then, the police were called.
Video: Three white male cops choke and half strip Chikesia
while restaurant patrons, mostly white
continue eating their meals quietly in the background.
The clip... shows Chikesia sitting in a chair clutching her purse, while three white male police officers surround her, yelling and leaning over her before she’s wrestled to the ground with her breasts exposed.
Throughout the incident, she repeatedly asks what she did wrong. “You’re not going to grab on me like that, no,” Chikesia says to one officer. “What are you doing?” Chikesia asks another. “I’ll break your arm, that’s what I’m about to do,” one responds....
Blackness in America is routinely degraded in one of three ways: it is weaponized and viewed as a threat, it is caricatured and seen as an obstacle, or it is infantilized and tossed around.
...Just hours after Chikesia’s story exploded on social media, a golf club called the police on four experienced Black women golfers because two white men complained that they were golfing too slowly.
...Last week, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were arrested for waiting in a Philadelphia Starbucks.
The mere presence of Blackness is treated as criminal. And what are we guilty of? Making whiteness uncomfortable. And this discomfort can mean our our death.
Dontre Hamilton, Saheed Vassell, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice are all dead because someone called the police on a “suspicious” Black person. And despite the “angry Black woman” accusations that have come about Chikesia’s behavior at the Waffle House, cursing in a restaurant does not deserve a beating, any more than carrying a toy gun bears a death sentence...
~THE CUT
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