Campaigning While Black

[DesertRat]

Turns out you can’t even be a politician while black in these American streets. A black Oregon state representative, who was out canvassing and checking in on her community had the cops called on her by one of her constituents.

Rep. Janelle Bynum, a Democrat, who is running for a second term in the state House of Representatives this fall, was knocking on doors and chatting to the residents for about two hours in Clackamas, when a deputy pulled up on her, Oregon Live reports.

Bynum had been taking notes on her cellphone from a conversation she had just had with someone at her second to last stop of about 30 homes when she was on her list that day when she saw the patrol car and immediately saw it for what it was.

The deputy asked Bynum if she was selling something. Bynum introduced herself as she was, a state legislator just trying to find out the best way to serve her community.

https://www.facebook.com/janelle.bynum/posts/1039775169513225
https://www.theroot.com/campaigningwhileblack-someone-called-the-cops-on-an-o-1827342703

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[Doodley]

1. She's a Democrat, black and a woman! No wonder the police were called!