For some people, just living can at times feel a little like a crime

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http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/22/Columns/For_some_people__just.shtml

MARY JO MELONE, St. Petersburg Times, 3/22/04

No police report was taken. Nothing had happened. It was all a misunderstanding, the officers said.

But as far as Jesse Tucker was concerned, something real and palpable occurred that morning in mid February.

Tucker had just finished doing some drywall work on a small, unoccupied yellow house in St. Petersburg's Old Southeast.

He was taking the trash to the curb when he saw three police officers coming toward him with their hands on their holstered guns. A woman was standing a short distance away. That was him, she said of Tucker. He was the man she said she saw trying to break into the yellow house.

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1. as a white man

hard as i might try, there are some experiences i just can't relate to when it comes to colour. the gestault of some of tuckers experiences are tragic and words can't describe how i wish for a different world.
as a gay man i can relate on a different level -- i.e. not more than a week ago standing outside of work smoking -- i got the drive-by ''faggot'' screamed at me. and this is the bay area california.
sigh.