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8:38

LatoyaPeterson - I am not the one this morning.

8:38

LatoyaPeterson - This whole Skip Gates thing has pissed me off.

8:39

Megan - Dude, I for real dreamt about Henry Louis Gates last night.

8:39

LatoyaPeterson - What happened? Did you dream you were a white character witness?

8:40

Megan - No, for some reason after that, I was washing people's cars and paying a gas bill. Let's not talk about how my subconscious mind works.

8:41

Megan - I don't always have linear dreams, I dream quite often in snippets.

8:43

Megan - Anyway, as a former denizen of the city of Boston, though not Cambridge, because I'm not nearly hoighty-toighty, smart, nor rich enough to attend Harvard, I can attest to one thing: Boston cops are the biggest assholes around.

8:43

LatoyaPeterson - Oh, so this was a sex dream? I'll drop it then. :-P

8:44

Megan - Ha! No, I was dreaming about the issue. Did I mention I also have a gas bill to pay and haven't washed my car in a month of Sundays? Apparently, my mind was functioning as a laundry list of things to do. If I'd gotten an oil change, my to-do list would have been complete.

8:44

LatoyaPeterson - Dreaming a to-do list? Dude, just use rememberthemilk.com. But seriously - I hate how we always expose the racist underbelly of society when shit like this happens. If I had a dollar for every "well, if blacks weren't so quick to call racism..." comment I've seen I'd retire.

8:46

Megan - Because, you know, when my Grandpa locked himself out of his brand new house in a brand new neighborhood, walked around back and shimmied in the back window, one of the 13 cops in my hometown with literally nothing else to do was there inside of 3 minutes -- it's a really small town people -- and demanding to be allowed in and see his ID.

8:47

LatoyaPeterson - And then what happened?

8:47

Megan - Oh, wait, right, that didn't happen at all because we're white. No one called the cops, no one said a word and my grandfather simply went about the business of making my mom a spare key.

8:49

LatoyaPeterson - Must be nice. I don't feel like digging out all the "black in Cambridge" stories I've heard over the years, but being treated like a born suspect kind of sours you to the type of happy cooperation that leads to successful engagements with law enforcement.

8:50

LatoyaPeterson - Oh! And then I got pissed off all over again since they threw in a question about Gates at the end of his healthcare press conference.

8:50

Megan - What, Obama doesn't speak for Black America? I could've sworn...

8:51

LatoyaPeterson - What the hell was that? "Hmm...the president is black - let's get his opinion!" He's the official ask a black guy now?

8:53

Megan - Also, you are so right about Boston and Cambridge. It's the most segregated city in the Northeast, and the people who live there sort of like it that way. It's the kind of city where I and my then-boyfriend, who was an immigrant from Taiwan, caught shit on the subway for being a biracial couple. The kind of city where you have to go out of your way to be a minority on public transportation, which is to say: catch the only train that runs to the very outskirts of Roxbury and then a bus into Roxbury. That rarely bodes well for respectful treatment of minorities by law enforcement.

8:54

LatoyaPeterson - *sigh* It's one of those things, Megan. If you haven't experienced it, it does not compute. Oh, and again with Barack - he's friends with Skip, so now the complaint is "all these black people stick together." You know, there's an in-house joke about small plantations. If you know it, insert it here.

8:56

LatoyaPeterson - Fuck it, I'm pissed. It's all rage this crappy hour. Note to the media: Make some more fucking black contacts.

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