WW coworker used this reaction [incorrectly] in our Teams chat and I knew we weren’t gatekeeping hard enough 🤦🏾♂️
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![148 Driving the Green Book
Birmingham. It was, and remains, the kind of encounter that is a regular occurrence in Black people's lives, as this story from Hezekiah Jackson captured vividly:
I was way out in the suburbs because a fellow who is a friend of mine works for a cleaning service. We were at an affair and he had missed his ride. So, he wanted to know if I would carry him to work. The service that he worked for cleans up a lot of big white churches. This church was way down in the suburbs. So I drove him down there, and there was this huge church with all this prop. erty. It was in a cul-de-sac. I dropped him off and I turned around.
When I got to the top of this hill, the police surrounded me. was looking in the rearview mirror. I put my hands on the steering wheel. They seemed to have a drill, like they had practiced it.
Two came this way [from the front]. Two came that way [from the sidel. Two came that way [from the other side]. And one was at the back of the car.
Because I had been to this affair, I had on a suit, tie, everything.
So one of the officers says, "Are you lost, reverend?"
I said, "No, I'm not lost."
He said, "Well, can we help you with something?" I said, " just gave someone a ride to work."
He [the police officer] acted like he didn't believe me. He said,
"So where do they work?" And I knew the name because / had just happened to look at the big marquee to the church because it's a big nondenominational church. He said, "Oh, okay, We will help you get to the expressway. We will help you!"
So they [the police officers] escorted me all the way to the on ramp. I didn't say anything but "Thank you." I was in this](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bvga4ssbjj7325ebqvetqqib/bafkreibzeonibflmtbtbmlnj3i5nfh23iifwol32otk4vy3a6bfwuovftu)
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unfamiliar place that was obviously unfriendly and all I wanted to do was get out of there. So he wanted to lead me to the place [the on-ramp]. And i said, "Thank you very much." And then when I got to the on-ramp of the expressway, he said "Well, reverend, you can go on home now."
In his mind, it was not possible that I could live out there. In a lot of their minds in the suburban communities, they do consider them sundown communities. They [the police and the residents] feel like, if we live there, they should already know us. If they don't know us or we're visiting someone, it's problematic.
Jackson's story sounds as if it was from the period during which The Green Book was published, when there were many sundown towns and suburbs across the United States. But, in fact, this incident happened in 2017.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bvga4ssbjj7325ebqvetqqib/bafkreifu4agyip5kr6wk2ym46ewsqhgtwetatdvi445ywgwqybu65z5bta)
