![]() ![]() Yes, the last chapter of the documentary looks - from Rodney King to Jacob Blake - at the way tragic police stops, sometimes tied to alleged vehicular infractions and sometimes not, have been pushed into wide consciousness in large part by increasingly available video technology. ![]() That reframing and expansion starts with the very title, which refers to a colloquial expression, popularized in the ’90s but pre-existing that time, referring to a police traffic stop enforced for no evident reason beyond the driver’s race. The best I can do is note that Driving While Black is very good and does what a good dissertation or grad school essay should do: take some information you probably know and some details you probably didn’t know, and reframe them within an argument that starts small but grows to encompass the entire history of the country. ![]()
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