Mikel Welch, TV designer from Trading Spaces and Murder House Flip, opens up about racism amid national protests in the wake of George Floyd's death
"I too fear for my life every time I’m driving to my clients’ high-end residential communities because I’ve been pulled over by the police and ask[ed], 'what am I doing in this neighborhood?'" he writes.
But, he says, smaller confrontations happen every day, "whether it’s the women with the quick clutch of her purse as I walk past her on the street, even though I’m armed with both hands full of groceries, or my neighbors who enter my apartment building just as I do, but ask if I actually live in the building and request that I show him my key before allowing me in the door behind him."
He recalls being followed around a wine store by an employee "to ensure that I’m not stealing," noting, "I’m usually looking through my photos to post a beautiful IG image for inspiration, but today my conscious wouldn’t let me do it."He concludes the post, which features an image bearing the phrase "Black Lives Matter," with a simple sentiment: "I too, am a Black man and my life matters whether I have on a bow tie or baseball cap.
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