Krista Vernoff tweeted out a list of crimes she personally committed in her youth on Twitter, and how, in EVERY INSTANCE, she was escorted home, chided gently, and given a bottomless series of chances to change her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She knows that black people don’t receive these bottomless chances, and asks other white folks to reflect on this, and to change the system. Because: IT NEEDS TO CHANGE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She wrote the tweets up into a piece for the Washington Post, and I’m sharing because it is worth a read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perspective | My list of youthful crimes is long. I survived because I’m white.<\/a><\/h4>
When I was 15, I was chased through a shopping mall by police while a store owner shouted, “Stop, thief!” I had thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise on me. I made it to the parking lot and hid between the cars before I was caught, booked, tried, sentenced to six months of probation, and required to see a parole officer weekly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n