The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8 Lee

Author:Jennifer 8 Lee [Lee, Jennifer 8]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-07T22:15:22+00:00

His mother, who had been alerted at work by a phone cal from a detective, returned home and was horrified to find her son in handcuffs. In front of gaping neighbors, the police dragged Troy and two friends of his to the police car and drove them to the precinct.

They gril ed him for hours.

“Where is the Chinese man and what did you do with him?” the detectives growled at Troy.

Troy insisted that he had no idea what they were talking about.

Then you won’t mind if we take your shirt in for testing, they said.

Go ahead, he told them. He signed a release for his gray T-shirt. It said, “I’m Troy Smith.

You can have my shirt for testing.”

Meanwhile one of his friends, a stout man with a goatee, was being questioned in another room.

Don’t go down with your friend with the socal ed barbecue sauce on his shirt, the detectives cajoled.

Troy’s friend insisted he had no idea what had happened to the Chinese deliveryman.

The test came back from the lab.

It was barbecue sauce.

Troy’s friend told me, after his release,

“Every black man who orders Chinese food is under suspicion.” Not only is there DWB, there’s also OWB

—Ordering While Black.

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