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From the years of 2002 to 2008, I
attended college at Texas A&M University – Commerce, in Commerce,
Texas. Until 2005, I was your typical off-campus commuter student,
living at my parents' house 20 miles away. But in 2005, I joined a
fraternity at TAMU-C as a last resort to get myself involved on
campus, before taking a more extreme measure, like transferring out
of state to attend a college close to one of my childhood friends.
Most of you who follow my page know
that I am a huge supporter of law enforcement, and have been pretty
outspoken about accusations against officers, as I discussed in my
article “Law Enforcement, Racism and the Media”. So when reports of a “racial incident” involving Commerce Police
Chief, Kerry Crews first began showing up in the news and on social
media a few weeks ago, I was pretty quick to lend my voice both on my
blog page and my personal page to supporting him.
You see, on Saturday, May 20th, former
“Miss Black Texas”, and TAMU-C student, Carmen Ponder, accused
Chief Crews of calling her a “black bitch”, after she had
confronted him over supposedly allowing his underage child to drive
erratically in front of her.