When I Stood up to a Black Cop

Culture Shock in South Carolina

Photo by Yunming Wang on Unsplash

I grew up in New York City. It was a typical working class neighborhood. There was an Armenian lady across the street who watched my baby brother when Mom went shopping. There was a Chinese girl my mom sometimes cared for. There were white kids and black kids and brown kids that I played with and walked to school with and argued with and studied with.