C|M|LAW’s Joseph C. Hostetler, Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law, Lolita K. Buckner Inniss has published a Letter to the Editor in the New York Times.  The letter concerns “The Good, Racist People,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (column, March 7), about the actor Forest Whitaker, who was stopped and frisked last month in a Manhattan deli by a deli employee.  In the letter, Inniss suggests that we treat all shoppers alike, either by scrutinizing no one, or everyone, and shifting the increased costs — of either lost goods due to shoplifting or of increased security — to the consumer.  The letter appeared on March 11, 2013, under the headline Shopping While Black:, Racism in Everyday Life, at page A20.

It is also available at  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/opinion/shopping-while-black-racism-in-everyday-life.html?smid=fb-share