{"id":1456,"date":"2012-03-25T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2012-03-25T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T23:05:57","slug":"dont-run-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2012\/03\/25\/dont-run-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"(don’t) run in public"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s killing, Jonathan Capehart<\/a>\u00a0relayed a couple of the\u00a0“it ain’t\u00a0right, it ain’t fair, but that’s\u00a0the way it is” lessons he\u00a0was taught\u00a0in youth:\u00a0don’t run in public, lest someone think you’re suspicious<\/em>; and,\u00a0don’t run while carrying anything in your hands, lest someone think you stole something<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’ve followed and admired Mr. Capehart’s clear and powerful writing since we met in the US-Japan Leadership Program. We don’t know each other well, but I happened to have this picture of us onscreen\u00a0when I came across\u00a0his Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0op-ed and appearance on MSNBC<\/a>. No, I’m not a stalker. I’d been prepping lecture slides\u00a0for an upper-division sociology class, using\u00a0the photo as a representation of\u00a0“social drinking”\u00a0as\u00a0a respectable and sophisticated activity for upwardly mobile young adults.*<\/p>\n

And there’s the rub.\u00a0When a black male is running down the street,\u00a0we don’t tend to notice his respectability, sophistication, or upward mobility —\u00a0let alone\u00a0his youth\u00a0or innocence. Yet\u00a0the other four people in the picture can generally run with impunity, donning hoodies if\u00a0we wish. Even those who\u00a0resist\u00a0ideas like “white privilege” can appreciate\u00a0such simple and\u00a0basic injustices, especially when writers\u00a0as talented as\u00a0Jonathan Capehart help bring them to light.<\/p>\n

*As you might guess, I then follow-up with a few pictures portraying alcohol use in a less positive light.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s killing, Jonathan Capehart\u00a0relayed a couple of the\u00a0“it ain’t\u00a0right, it ain’t fair, but that’s\u00a0the way it is” lessons he\u00a0was taught\u00a0in youth:\u00a0don’t run in public, lest someone think you’re suspicious; and,\u00a0don’t run while carrying anything in your hands, lest someone think you stole something. I’ve followed and admired Mr. Capehart’s clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}