The cop asked politely why he had blown through the four-way stop sign. When the officer gazed upon my friend’s lily-white skin, he instantly holstered his gun. My friend rolled his window down and stuck both hands out as the officer approached. Just a quick aside in the story-my friend is saying “unholstered his gun” in a way that leads me to believe that is not what he is used to when being approached by a cop.
The cop gets out of the car, and right away, unholsters his gun. He knew the police thought they were pulling over a Black person. He’s in a car with very tinted windows in a Black neighborhood. Immediately behind him he sees flashing lights. So, he was driving hastily and blew through a four-way stop sign. One night, a few years ago, my white, male friend was late for a date with his wife. Illuminating and packed with love and laughter, this is a must-read for just about everyone. Validating for anyone who has first-hand experience, and revealing for anyone who doesn’t, Amber and Lacey’s next book helps us all find the absurdity in the pervasive frustrations of racism.
Recounting the wildest tales of racism from their parents, their siblings, and Amber’s nieces and nephews, this intergenerational look at ludicrous (but all too believable) everyday racism as experienced across age, gender, and appearance will have you gasping with shock and laughter in turn. Now, the dynamic duo makes it clear-Lacey isn’t the only one in the family with ridiculous encounters to share! Amber and Lacey have many more uproarious stories, both from their own lives and the entire Ruffin family. With equal parts heart and humor, she and her sister Lacey Lamar shared some of the eye-opening and outrageous experiences Lacey had faced in Nebraska in their first book. But for the Ruffin family and many others, there has been one constant that connects them: racism hasn’t gone anywhere.įrom her raucous musical numbers to turning upsetting news into laughs as the host of The Amber Ruffin Show or in her Late Night with Seth Meyers segments, Amber is no stranger to finding the funny wherever she looks. A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday experiences of racism from the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey.įamilies may not always see eye to eye we get on each other’s nerves, have different perspectives and lives-especially when we consider how we've grown up in different generations.
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