[The Lone Ranger]

Oh, I don't think the police are all going around looking for black people "out of place" in order to arrest them. Nor do I even believe that all the people who told me they were just minding their own business when they were picked up were telling the truth. What I found so shocking about the whole thing was how many of these people seemed to think that getting arrested once or twice a year was normal.

Maybe they were all a bunch of hooligans for all I know. Still, it was a pretty graphic reminder that I -- a poor white guy -- lived in a very different world than the poor brown and black guys did.

Cheers,

Michael