The Sky’s On The Ground
“It’s all really gone backward. Trump has to be removed from that office. The longer he’s there, the worse it will get. Whatever you thought this person was going to do for you, it’s wrong.”
They say if you want to understand the world from another person’s perspective you should walk a mile in their shoes. For David Sancious, a simple walk in Los Angeles graphically demonstrated that despite the thousands of miles marched by the civil rights movement in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond, very little had changed in terms of the discrimination experienced by the average black American.
He recalls being stopped by two LAPD cops for being “black while walking”, an incident that happened in the wake of the Rodney King beating by police officers. “I was on the original So tour with Peter Gabriel. We had a few hours to spare so we decided to take a walk on the Santa Monica pier and these two officers pulled me over and put me in the position. One minute I was out walking with my then-girlfriend and suddenly
