Kal Penn posted a piece on The Huffington Post late Thursday night that purported to explain and clarify his views on stop and frisk.
There was only one problem: The piece didn’t clarify anything.
Instead the reader ends up getting some ramblings about what it’s like to be a brown man post-9/11, a line about how difficult it is to be “nuanced” in just 140 characters (must every celebrity use that line when they get into Twitter trouble?), and a few sentences about building bridges across community lines.
Needless to say, the criticism continued.
https://twitter.com/JAJohnson1/status/368207300298686464
@KalPenn wrote something on Huffington Post saying he wasn't clear. He was, though.
Its ok for Blacks to be treated as ciminals, I got it
— Thick James (@TheREAL_MBrooks) August 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/windybayou/status/368227836663836673
.@jeremyjewitt the ol' can't-express-nuanced-ideas-in-140-characters, apology. "It's a good policy" was pretty clear to me @kalpenn
— Joebot (@60th_Street) August 16, 2013
This 'clarification'/non-apology is more annoying b/c it means you *do* know better but was thoughtless @kalpenn – http://t.co/SlKIzDkMyn
— syreeta mcfadden (@reetamac) August 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/NaniCoolJ/status/368213263420387329
For more on stop and frisk, be sure to read Bridget Todd’s open letter to Penn.
Lakshmi Gandhi is a co-founder and editor of The Aerogram. Follow her on Twitter at @LakshmiGandhi or email her at editors@theaerogram.com.
