Oh, the Racism Valet stories continue to happen, and not just to black people in parks, or stores, or Starbucks, but to celebrities at their own homes.
Apparently Ving Rhames was minding his own business, entering his own home, when one of his white neighbors saw him and called the police.
Seriously. Rhames had arrived at his home, earlier this year, and heard a knock at the door and, well, he’ll tell you:
“I open the door and there is a red dot pointed at my face from a 9-mm, and they say, ‘Put up your hands.’ Literally.”
He was removed from his own home and taken outside where the situation could have gotten worse but for the fact that one police officer recognized him … not as an actor, but as a parent with a son who played basketball at Rhame’s son’s rival high school. And that’s what scared Rhames most of all:
“What if it was my son and he had a video game remote or something, and you thought it was a gun. Just like, I don’t know, Trayvon had a bag of Skittles.”
According to police, one of Rhames’ neighbors called 911 to report a “large black man” breaking into the actor’s home, except the large black man owned the mother**king home; and when police escorted Rhames to the neighbor’s house to clear things up, she denied even placing the call.
Bitch, please. Someone could have been hurt, or worse, because this woman saw a scary black man, once again, going into his own home!
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