“UPS mistakenly delivered a package to the wrong house. The address on the package is for a house just a block over, so we are waiting for UPS to pick up the package and deliver it to the right house.

“But Sean, why wouldn’t you be a decent person and just take the package to your neighbor? Or better yet, you have teenage sons. Send one of them. That’s the perk of having teenagers — free menial labor.”

The answer is because we’re black. And it’s extremely unsafe to send our boys to the home of any family that we don’t know in this predominantly white neighborhood.

Why? Because there is a realistic chance that one of my neighbors will see my boy as a threat and call the police or even pull a gun on him.

And if you think I’m being ridiculous or paranoid, Google “Brennan Walker,” a 14 yo black boy who earlier this month, missed the bus and tried to walk to school. He got lost and approached a house to ask for directions. The owners of this home were convinced that this 14-year-old boy had come to kill them (in broad daylight), causing the husband to pull out his gun and open fire on the fleeing boy.

THAT is why this fucking package will be sitting on my porch until UPS retrieves it. Because I can’t trust that my white neighbors won’t see me, a Harvard-educated lawyer (or my 14-year-old honor student son) as a roaming homicidal maniac.

THIS is what it’s like to be black in “post-racial” America”……so, those of you….who have no idea….trust me…..we are not making this shit up…..this is real…..

OR MAYBE THIS MIGHT HELP YOU UNDERSTAND…..SOMEONE WROTE…..

I’m a white, male runner.

Until I laced up tonight, I never thought much about how those two adjectives shield me every time I run.

Because I’m a white, male runner, I run downside streets. I run downtown.
I run down deserted trails. I run early in the morning and late at night.

Because I’m a white, male runner, I wear a sweatshirt when it’s cold. Sometimes with a hood. I’m safe to run shirtless or in jeans or barefoot.
It’s OK for me to run fast. Or I can stop and rest.

Because I’m a white, male runner, I never imagine encountering that driver with that sticker on that truck coming around that corner.
I never wonder why that police cruiser drove past me again.
I never hesitate to go into that store to get a drink.

Because I’m a white, male runner, I could never imagine confronting a self-deputized, self-proclaimed neighborhood militiaman.
I could never imagine breaking my cadence to fight off an attacker.

Because I’m a white, male runner, I know my son is safe to run by my side.
And I know he’ll be fine if he chooses to follow in my footsteps.

Because I’m a white, male runner, I don’t have to wonder whether my hobby is worth the risk.

I’m sure my privilege protects me from a hundred other concerns that I can’t even comprehend.

But I don’t have to worry about those things anyway.

Because I’m a white, male runner.

FORMER SOCCER STAR WHO DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN 2016 IS FOUND ALIVE….Hiannick Kamba was blowing up in the German Bundesliga and playing for the soccer club FC Schalke 04…..dude was no joke…..and they found out he’d been working for a German energy company….back in 2016, word on the street was that he was killed in a car accident in his native country….the Democratic Republic of Congo….he says he was taken advantage of by his friends….Kamba said his boys left him during a night trip to the interior of the Congo….and jacked him for his money, his papers and his phone….and when he went to the Germany embassy to prove he was alive….they said, “no papers-no way”…..and that hindered his chances of returning back to Germany….no one knows how he survived…or how he returned back to Germany…..and his ex-wife….Anette Milk is now being investigated for forging documents so she would get paid a six figure life insurance payout….Kamba claims he didn’t know his wife did that…..Kamba’s family fled the Congo for Germany in 1986….everyone except him…was sent back….he was allowed to stay because of his mad football skills….and was granted residency rights….yo K….I might take a closer look at your so-called friends….and the wife…..just sayin’!

11 SECRET SERVICE EMPLOYEES INFECTED WITH CORONAVIRUS-60 IN SELF-QUARANTINE….But don’t worry….remember what “STUPID” said?…..it’s a hoax….it’ll pass….some people might have to be sacrificed so that we can open up the country again…it’s gonna leave….it’ll be gone……it’s going to be eradicated….I’m not responsible for any of this shit….and now the bug is all up in the “WHITE” house….man, if you don’t take the steps to do what you need to do….and take care of your friends and family….ya’ll gonna die!……every state that has decided to reopen….has seen a spike in new cases….Germany is slowly opening back up….shops and restaurants are reopening…..schools are opening next week….the restaurants aren’t set up where you can’t go inside and sit….but you can order from the door….and find a nice quite place to chill and eat….the country jumped on it quick back in early January….….yes, lives were lost but many more were saved….and in order to find out exactly what will happen next….you have to stick your toe in the water….and try and figure out step 2…..and if there is a new rise in cases….Germany will go back to step 1…..shut everything back down…..and figure out another way….but back home….it seems like it’s on you….because the government is not helping….nor cares at this moment in time…..in some counties they’re offering free testing….find out where…..if you feel the need to find out…..still don’t think shutting down is a good idea…..Sweden decided that they “got this” and didn’t take precautions…..now it’s death rate and economy is one of the worse in Europe….my friend Car Rote shared something….. “The end of stay-at-home order doesn’t mean the pandemic is over. It means they currently have room for you in ICU.”……Obama says the “WHITE” house response to the virus has been an absolute chaotic disaster”…..see “STUPID”…..now you finally have a reason to talk about Obama.

SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR TELLS SIOUX TRIBES THEY HAVE 24 HOURS TO REMOVE COVID-19 CHECKPOINTS….Or what?…..you’re going to try the General George Armstrong Custer idea again?….Kristi Noem….that’s the GOV….sent letters to the leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe demanding they take down checkpoints designed to prevent the spread of coronavirus on tribal land be removed…GOV said;…… “We are strongest when we work together”…..yep, and every Native American knows….. “White man speaks with fork tongue” ……and black people…. “yeah, right MF”….and Latinos….. “Si,si….pendejo”……the tribes are saying…reservation residents may travel within South Dakota to areas the state has not deemed a Covid-19 “hotspot”….if it’s for an essential activity such as medical appointments or to get supplies not available on the reservation….cool…..but they must complete a health questionnaire when they leave and when they return….those living within hotspots….don’t even think about visiting the reservation….ain’t happening….and what’s wrong with this idea?….they’re only doing what America promised them and didn’t do….they’re looking out for themselves….armed nut-jobs can dress as if they’re being shipped off to Iraq…..and protest an idea that is designed to keep their numb-nuts alive….and here’s a group of people who are trying to stay alive…..and you have a problem with that?…..it’s their land….not ours anymore….so Kristi….to quote my cousin Patti again….. “SHUT UP!”….at least some counties in America are haven’t second thoughts when it comes to listening to governors who want to open up the state.

15 EPIC BOOKS YOU MAY FINALLY HAVE TIME TO READ NOW…..By the time you get past the first one….which is War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)….the virus might be on vacation….here are my favorites out of those 15…..some guy named Brandon Griggs picked….The Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling)…..Roots (Alex Haley)…..The Stand (Stephen King)……Don Quixote (Miguel Cervantes)…..1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)…..The Iliad/Odyssey (Homer)…..A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth….not bad Griggsie oldboy…….but  you left out a few good ones….like…..The Labyrinth of the Spirits (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)…..Stamped From The Beginning (Ibram X. Kendi)…..The Berlin Wall (Frederick Taylor)…..New York (Edward Rutherfurd)….The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)….The Water Dancer (Ta-Nehisi Coates)……Down The River Unto the Sea (Walter Mosley)…..and Harlem Renaissance Reader (David Levering Lewis)….just in case you have nothing to do while you sit in your house…..enjoy!