Speak On It: Black In America

I'm praying that we get as many blacks as possible and even a whole-lotta whites, and whomever else watching the CNN special that will be airing tonight and tomorrow night at 9pm EST, "CNN Presents: Black in America". But I was over on CNN.com reading an article about the three young ladies to the left, all in their 20's, all professional black women, and all of them racially profiled in a mall here in Atlanta, GA.Their crime, simply, "being black in America."

Leah Wells (center) and her two girlfriends, Rosalyn Wilson (left), and EvaJoyce Woullard (right) were unjustly detained for shoplifting. After the incident, Leah wrote a detailed letter to the CEO of of Gap Inc. The letter detailed what happened when Wells and her two girlfriends decided to ditch the gym during an office lunch break and do some "power-shopping" instead.

The three young women ended up detained for shoplifting."We were dressed professionally," Wells told CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien. "It was casual Friday. We had on dresses and casual office wear. We were racially profiled. It was as simple as that." Wells says she and her friends were detained by six Gwinnett County, Georgia, police officers for "about an hour and a half" at the entrance of an Old Navy store, owned by Gap. Their crime, as Wells sees it, was being black in America. In her letter to Murphy, Wells describes enduring "disdainful stares from the mothers and grandmothers and children entering the store." Police responded to a call from mall security about a gang of shoplifters in the store. They found no stolen merchandise on Wells or her friends. No one -- not the police, not the store managers -- bothered to apologize."

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