Amber Ruffin’s hilariously horrifying book about everyday racism shows this is indeed who we are
Last June in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Amber Ruffin opened four episodes of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” by telling stories about her own traumatizing run-ins with racist cops. In one she recalls an officer pulling her over and, for no reason, screaming at her until she burst into tears. At the time of this encounter, she was teenager. In another, the “Late Night” writer and host of “The Amber Ruffin Show” on Peacock recalls the time cops threatened her for joyfully skipping down an alleyway to meet a friend she hadn’t seen in a very long while. In yet another tale an officer tried to bust her for soliciting because she was sitting in a car with a male friend. Yes, that friend was white. No, they weren’t doing anything wrong. She wasn’t breaking the law in any of the other instances, either. I would love to say this goes without saying, but . . . it doesn’t. “Look, I have a thousand stories like this,” Ruffin shared with viewers. “The cops have pulled a gun on me. The cops have followed …
