Joan's Blog  "Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Out Of My Hat" MARCH 1,
2012 5:27PM  Racism 101  Rate: 73 Flag  Someone called the
police on my husband today.  It's happened before and it will
happen again. It will happen again because my husband is Black. 
When his daughter was three, the store in our neighborhood
called the police. Suspected of shoplifting a tiny patent
leather purse. He wanted it for his little one. He looked inside
it, probably took too long making a decision. The woman called
the police. He looked suspicious. He was shoplifitng one of
those tiny purses.  They were nine dollars and ninety-nine
cents, he told me later. It was the first time I ever saw my
husband humiliated.   Today, he went into a Levi's store.
Browsing while waiting to pick me up from an appointment. The
call goes out for a "Black man wearing a Cal t-shirt and a gun
on his belt." The store is worried about a man with a gun. It is
a reasonable concern.  But then they add this:  He's the guy who
shoplifted in here before.  It was qui