Ving Rhames white neighbor called the cops on him for entering his own home
I haven’t devoted any blog space to the #PermitPatty and #BBQBecky situations. Not covering those stories isn’t any kind of political statement, I just prefer to write about celebrity gossip, fashion and politics rather than writing about the white people treating county and city law enforcement as their personal security guards whenever they encounter a black person. What’s different in 2018 is that now people are whipping out their phones to record all of the white peeps as they call the cops on… black children selling water, or black folks enjoying a barbeque, or black students taking a nap in a dorm common room, or black folks simply existing and minding their own business, which seems to trigger these people to no end.
So here’s something that doesn’t shock me in the least: BBQ Beckys and Permit Pattys will even pull this sh-t on FAMOUS black people. Ving Rhames is a national treasure, one our greatest actors and by all accounts, a lovely guy. He was minding his own business, entering his own home… and one of his white neighbors called the cops on him.
While discussing racism with the host of SiriusXM’s The Clay Cane Show on Friday, Mission: Impossible – Fallout star Ving Rhames revealed an incident in which police responding to an alleged burglary held Rhames at gunpoint in his Santa Monica home. “This happened this year,” the actor recalled. “I open the door and there is a red dot pointed at my face from a 9-mm, and they say, ‘Put up your hands.’ Literally.” After he was taken outside, the situation was only defused after one of the responding officers recognized Rhames. Not from his work in movies like Pulp Fiction, but as a parent whose son also played basketball. Their son’s respective high schools had previously squared off in a game.
The incident scared Rhames, not just for his own safety, but for that of his child. “What if it was my son and he had a video game remote or something, and you thought it was a gun,” he mused. “Just like, I don’t know, Trayvon had a bag of Skittles.” According to police, Rhames says, a neighbor had called 911 to report a “large black man” breaking into the actor’s home. When police escorted Rhames to the neighbor’s house to clear things up, she denied placing the call.
It’s chilling to think that Ving is absolutely right about his “what if” scenario. What if his son had answered the door? His son could have been holding a phone, or a spatula, or a scarf. And the cops would have shot first and asked questions never, because that’s the way it works. As for this: “When police escorted Rhames to the neighbor’s house to clear things up, she denied placing the call.” When white people get f–king caught doing this bullsh-t, they usually cry, they usually lie, they usually pretend they didn’t do that sh-t. They knowingly called the cops on a black person, because they know that the second you bring armed-to-the-teeth police officers in that situation, there’s a higher probability that the black person will be shot and likely killed. Yet they’re too f-king fragile to admit it and own their white supremacist bullsh-t.
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— Northland Centers (@NFPCenters) July 24, 2018
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