I remember seeing a guest on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show about 40 years ago who was a tall, slim, handsome, well-dressed professional Black man who had been walking down the street in an upscale L.A. neighborhood while visiting friends who lived there when cops came by and stopped him to ask him for ID. There was no provocation, no phone calls from neighbors, they just happened to be passing and saw him walking down the sidewalk. His position was that he wasn't doing anything wrong and so did not have to show ID. They arrested him for being obstructive. He sued for false arrest and won, and that's why Johnny had him on his show as a guest. I often think that if that same thing happened today there is a very good chance that the cops would have shot and killed him, or at least beaten the crap out of him.
Don't worry, I know not everyone is familiar with Spoonerisms. 'Shining wit' is the most well known of them, there was also a reporter/news presenter who referred to President Regan as Resident Pagan. It started with a guy named William Spooner in the 18th or 19th century who muddled up the beginnings of words, it was possibly a sympton of a mild stroke.
I remember seeing a guest on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show about 40 years ago who was a tall, slim, handsome, well-dressed professional Black man who had been walking down the street in an upscale L.A. neighborhood while visiting friends who lived there when cops came by and stopped him to ask him for ID. There was no provocation, no phone calls from neighbors, they just happened to be passing and saw him walking down the sidewalk. His position was that he wasn't doing anything wrong and so did not have to show ID. They arrested him for being obstructive. He sued for false arrest and won, and that's why Johnny had him on his show as a guest. I often think that if that same thing happened today there is a very good chance that the cops would have shot and killed him, or at least beaten the crap out of him.
Don't worry, I know not everyone is familiar with Spoonerisms. 'Shining wit' is the most well known of them, there was also a reporter/news presenter who referred to President Regan as Resident Pagan. It started with a guy named William Spooner in the 18th or 19th century who muddled up the beginnings of words, it was possibly a sympton of a mild stroke.