A month or two ago, my car broke down at an intersection. There just so happened to be two white cops there who saw my disabled vehicle. They literally stopped traffic going both ways and helped me push my car to the gas station across the street.


With all the tension that revolves around mostly white police officers shooting unarmed black men in this country, the question America needs to ask is this--how do we weed out the white cops who shoot a stranded black motorist, as the case in Tulsa, and keep the ones who'd rather help that same black motorist, like in my case...? How do we keep the white cop who pulled me over only to inform me my registration was expired and to get it checked out, and get rid of the white cop who pulled me over out Whitemarsh in Baltimore County and threatened to bring the drug sniffing K-9 to the scene because he saw on my license I lived on Park Heights, a neighborhood in Baltimore City that ain't exactly the safest...?


When we figure out the answers to questions like those, maybe then we'll begin to make progress as a nation. But until we all agree that a problem exists to begin with, we will be stuck on a treadmill, going nowhere fast.