Reblogging for other diasporic and expat folk. Especially non-caucasian diasporic and expat folk. Some things change when you shift countries. Keep the changes in mind.

Whenever I see this I wonder what the gun guys think about it.

So I’m a white girl in a liberal part of the us, I have the least to fear from the police, and yet every time I’ve been pulled over, i alert the cop that I’m reaching for my registration in my glove box because it’s been drilled into me that reaching for anything without letting the cop know what you’re doing means they jump to the conclusion you’re reaching for a gun.

The fucked up part is that in writing this I only just realized it’s insane