Hello Readers! I was on NPR's News + Notes with Jozen Cummings, editor of King-Mag.com, and Desmond Burton of AfroNerd. We discussed Super Tuesday results, and celebrity endorsements. But unfortunately the most interesting debate got cut short. The topic was the police shooting of a woman and her baby in Lima, Ohio. I was able to set up the issue, but didn't get to offer my opinion. And I definitely got sidetracked when Desmond brought up the woman's "afrocentric" name, Tarika Wilson, as a factor to consider. I don't really need to spend a lot of time explaining why this was troubling, or why I disagree with this assessment whole-heartedly, do I?

As for the actual issue, my stance is this: no, I don't think the fact that Wilson was living in a house with a known drug dealer with her kids, all of whom were fathered by drug dealers, should be glazed over. But I think the bigger issue is that there are women like Tarika Wilson all over the country — with kids by several different (often criminal) fathers in stagnant, dangerous situations — who probably feel like they have no other options. It's a cycle that needs to be broken. But the obvious, major issue is, why the hell did the police shoot an unarmed (?) woman and her baby? But we didn't even come close to discussing that…

You can listen here!