Driving while Black: How police racism endangered three gene

Driving while Black: How police racism endangered three generations of my family


Driving while Black: How police racism endangered three generations of my family
Michael H. Cottman
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At 16 years old — before I took my driver's license test in Detroit — my father, Howard, asked me to sit down at the kitchen table in our home in a middle-class neighborhood on the city's East Side for "The Talk," which many Black fathers were having (and still have) with their sons and daughters across America.
It was a serious discussion; it was a dangerous time. A complete breakdown of trust between the police and Detroit's Black community had led to a civic rebellion at that point in the 1970s. I had already become a young, unsuspecting witness to the random harassment of Black boys like me, while elsewhere in the city, police were beating and killing young Black men in an unprecedented series of assaults.

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