the restroom. it reminds us during slavery when black people were lynched for doing something like taking 75 cents or looking at a white woman. this is an american problem. an american historical problem. and even just looking at the yale students video, the fact that she was asked to produce papers, to produce an i.d., saying that she didn t belong there. even though she had apartment keys. it just smacks, again, of the segregation era of even apartheid when black people were expected to carry i.d.s to prove that we belong in these spaces. and so i think, again, what s knew about it all, is we have cell phones, we have social media, the speed at which we see it happening is new, but this problem of white people using the police, using force to remove black people from public spaces is as american as baseball and apple pie. and it says something not