April 27, 2007 @ 11:47 am
?uestlove Profiled by TSA, DEA
Grammy winner detained in Buffalo, details experience on blog.
Roots drummer/producer/DJ Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson was racially profiled and detained by airport security in Buffalo, according to his blog. The Grammy winner was returning from Australia, where he had booked several lucrative, paid-in-cash DJ performances, when Buffalo airport security, suspicious of the amount of money he was carrying - and, according to his blog, his "knitted Rastafarian hat" - detained, questioned and searched him.
?uestlove writes, "i can't describe the feeling here. its like i know mofos have gone through way worse with the police. and this aint even no thing im blogging to get you guys to bandwagon the hate machine on cops. but i am angry right now. im angry cause im letting this effect my self worth and my esteem. im beating myself up cause i really shoulda insisted that i get paid direct to my bank account instead of cash in hand. im angry cause i let these pigs echo their snide remarks to me ("you mean to tell me you can carry all this cash and sit in coach?" "sing one of your songs!" "where did you get that bag?" "how come you are not in this magazine?" To read the post in its entirety, click here.
This news comes less than a week after the "60 Minutes" segment about the no-police-cooperation clause currently prevailing in some African American communities - which has directly affected the amount of solved homicides. On that show, Harlem rapper Cam'ron told anchor Anderson Cooper that he would never cooperate with police, even if a serial killer were living next door. Cam later issued a statement clarifying his comments: "Please understand that I was expressing my own personal frustration at my own personal circumstances.
The "60 Minutes" news piece briefly touched on racial profiling and police harrassment as a root cause of the "stop snitching" tenet.
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