Such a fun7/5/2023 The whole incident is caught on mobile camera by another fellow shopper, thirty-something white male Kelley. The guard challenges her, rudely, and when she resists his challenge, he over-reacts and threatens to call the police. What is a young black woman, dressed as if she has just come from a party (which in fact she has), doing out at that hour with a fair-skinned white-haired toddler? She must be up to no good, the fellow shopper concludes, and the security guard concurs. When I first read the blurb it was not what I expected from the title – I thought it would be about teenagers, which tells you a bit about where my head is at right now! But no, the blurb tells us that a young black woman in Philadelphia, twenty-five year old Emira Tucker, is out at a grocery store late one evening with the small girl she looks after when a fellow shopper raises her concerns with the in-store security guard. This was my book club’s choice for last month.
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