Street Beats & Drizzy

While walking down College Street Friday night with a few friends, making our way to one of Toronto's parties we stumbled onto a case of racial profiling @ its finest. I know what people are thinking but yo...it's 2009 mothereffers and you know what? People of colour need to stick together. I would be just as upset if this was happening to a white guy so don't get it twisted, wrong is wrong. So here we go.

So a man, let's say in his early to mid 2o's driving a nice SUV was made to get out his car and stand outside and get handcuffed outside of a cruiser WHILE being administered a breathalyzer (saw that 5 times fast lol). STANDING OUTSIDE THE CAR IN CUFFS. WHAAAAAAT? I don't know if anyone's ever been administered one of those bad boys but lemme tell you. You don't get HANDCUFFED and placed in front of a crowd of onlookers as you are administered the test unless you resisted or did some crazy papashango type movements while driving lol. But no, the events did not unfold this way. I saw it with my own two eyes.

So now, I'm mad. I feel outraged. I want to throw stuff at the pigs. The poor guy is standing out on the street blowing into the breathalyzer and is trying to not have his face be seen by us nosey onlookers. What a coincidence that I just finished having quite the convo with my buddy from school about our infamous Race and Racism class @ our University 3 years back. So he's blowing into the test. The cops are looking around and so they start to become just a little more aggressive with him. Me and my people are commenting from the street, people are stopping and are just as infuriated as us as they tightened the cuffs...why? i dunno just in case he can do a stretch armstrong type trick and get out??? Eventually the hype died down as more and more onlookers looked in disbelief we eventually just started to fade into the streets to our destination.

We didnt take pictures or anything but I would be that person to do that and expose these fools. Lucky. Next time. We did have a good laugh after though.

Why was it so funny you seemed really mad??

Here's the kicker: Drake was in the backseat of the car looking all distraught. His driver was getting booked. And YES he was trying to get us to notice him and take his picture. AND no we didn't. AND yes I still love his music. Made me totally feel foolish for feeling bad for his fool of a friend. Fool.



"i want the money, money and the cars, cars and the clothes, i just wanna be, i just wanna be successful"

-hidden surveillance