Kal Penn Writes a Stop and Frisk Editorial That Says Nothing About Stop and Frisk

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.kalpenn-kumar

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

https://twitter.com/windybayou/status/368227836663836673

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.

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