Isaiah Washington Under Fire For Telling Chris Rock to ‘Adapt’ to Racial Profiling
Actor saw the selfies and gave Rock some unsolicited advice on Twitter:
I sold my $90,000.00 Mercedes G500 and bought 3 Prius’s, because I got tired of being pulled over by Police. #Adapt @chrisrock
Washington immediately took some heat for the tweet, with some claiming his “adapt” comment was a form of accepting a problem, rather than trying to solve it.
Music and culture guru Questlove even weighed in on Twitter:
Prius won’t save you from #DWB @IWashington i know. trust.
Wednesday, Washington sought to clarify his remarks on CNN with host Don Lemon:
“I know a lot of people take issue with the hashtag ‘adapt,’ thinking I was implying that white supremacy or racial profiling was stopped if you were in a different car, but that’s not [what I meant],” he told Lemon. “Police are about the business of policing, night and day. … I really feel that he needs to look at the area that he’s in and even visit with the police in the local community.”
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