vudukungfu: Perry, a professor of African American Studies, said in the letter that she never claimed that there was racial bias was at work in her particular arrest
Sweetheart, if you spend your lifetime espousing African American Studies, you are always making that link. I have yet to see anyone make a career out of any other ethnicity hyphenated with the Nation's nickname for one thing*. For the other, your profession is based solely on the perspective that you are of color. Your life is based upon that. You will never be free of that shading. You will always be in the shadow of color because you have chosen this. While other persons of color can go through life being that girl with the funny nose, or that guy with the lisp, or screwy Kelly, or Bald Pete, you will always be a black woman. Not because you were born one, but because you have made a living out of being one. There is no description of you that doesn't inherently begin with color. You'll never be that girl that likes motorcycles first. Not vegan Imani. Never Professor farty. Just that Black prof. And that mantle you have chosen. At least own up to it.
*Come to think of it, I have a pal that is a Native American for a living.