1. I drive way too fast. All the time. Usually 400+ miles per week.
2. I do not get pulled over. Ever. Only once, fifteen years ago, in my entire life. Police regularly cruise by me unconcerned as I push 80 on the highway.
3. Some people (me) are instantly seen as good law-abiding citizens. Even when I’m clearly breaking the law.
4. Others (#PhilandoCastile) are instantly shot as potential threats.
5. This is what racism looks like. Not just the extreme cross-burning nazi-saluting kind of thing that makes you “a racist.” I’m talking about an unconscious or implicit bias, deep in the back of our minds, a gut-level assessment of who’s good and who’s bad.
6. I do it too. Wish I could say otherwise. But at least I can speak up about what I see in our society and in myself.