thing happened today

At the cof­fee shop, a lady walks up to a po­lice of­fi­cer work­ing on his lap­top while drink­ing a coffee. 

She has a stern look in her eyes and the type of lips that’ve seen more col­la­gen than they should by her age. She toss­es a bag with a cook­ie in­side and says “I sup­port you. You guys have had it pret­ty tough re­cent­ly so this is on me.”

And I’m won­der­ing how a cheap ass cof­fee store cook­ie is sup­posed to make up for any­thing. I‘m watch­ing silent­ly as the of­fi­cer smiles lit­tle and goes ‘why thank you! Now if only I could get peo­ple to dri­ve a lit­tle safer.’

His good na­tured tone in­di­cat­ed him at­tempt­ing to strike up con­ver­sa­tion with some­one in the com­mu­ni­ty – as good of­fi­cers practice. 

And this woman, hold­ing onto an over­sized Guc­ci bag shuts him down while toss­ing her clear­ly pam­pered, per­fect­ly straight locks. She goes “I didn’t get you a cook­ie be­cause of speed­ing tickets.”

And it was filled with so much ven­om that the of­fi­cer set the cook­ie down, pushed it away from him and con­tin­ued fil­ing his pa­per­work in si­lence at the com­mu­ni­ty table. 

Be­cause in that slight tone, this priv­i­leged woman wasn’t telling this good, hard work­ing cop that she ap­pre­ci­at­ed him for work­ing hard and be­ing vis­i­ble in the com­mu­ni­ty. She was say­ing – ‘I choose your oc­cu­pa­tion over an en­tire race, or eth­nic­i­ty. Be­cause you’re more im­por­tant than them – who­ev­er I think them encompasses.’

And as a good cop, he po­lite­ly made a choice to de­cline the cookie. 

Be­cause he isn’t there to make racists feel bet­ter about them­selves. He’s there to do his job and that means pro­tect­ing good peo­ple from peo­ple like this woman.

And some­times it starts by not eat­ing a cookie.
 

—jes

Flom­mist Jes ex­ists for mo­ments of fiery in­spi­ra­tion. See her in­spi­ra­tional byprod­ucts at jdeprez.com. Copy­right © 2016 JES DE­PREZ. Cof­fee Shop foto by mehallo.

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