We just have to be vigilant.’”Īfter the deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd, he finds himself more aware of the need to be defensive - “to not have anything lying around that even looks like it could be problematic.” In the words of the poem, the idyll can so easily be disrupted. “As soon as I gave them my Wash U ID, it was fine,” he said. He’s been pulled over a few times - twice, he said, because the police wanted to make sure the car he was driving was his. Louis, Phillips said he has wondered about his interactions with police. I hadn't been planning to have ‘war’ in this at all - but having thought about the scene of tenderness and making a home with someone, and then thinking, ‘But it could easily be disrupted.’”Īs a Black man living in St. “I love watching them bring the horses out,” he said.
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