Empire Star Taraji P. Henson Says That She Is Sending Her Son To A Historically Black School Due To Racial Profiling
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| Empire Star Taraji P. Henson Says That She Is Sending Her Son To A Historically Black School Due To Racial Profiling |
The “Empire” star told sources that she’s planning to send her 20-year-old son, Marcel, to Howard University, a historically black school in the District — because she says he was racially profiled when he visited University of Southern California.
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| Taraji And Her Son Marcel |
“My child has been racially profiled.
He was in Glendale, California and did exactly everything the cops told him to do, including letting them illegally search his car. It was bogus because they didn’t give him the ticket for what he was pulled over for,” .
“Then he’s at University of Southern California, the school that I was going to transfer him to, when police stopped him for having his hands in his pockets,” she said of her son, who attended a private high school in Los Angeles.
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| Howard University |
“So guess where he’s going? Howard University. I’m not paying $50K so I can’t sleep at night wondering is this the night my son is getting racially profiled on campus.”
Henson also spoke out about a similar incident on Twitter during the trending #BlackLivesMatter hashtag earlier this year in the wake of Ferguson and several police brutality cases:
Racial profiling is VERY REAL!!! It has happened to me but to my son more and he is only 20!!! Something needs to be done. #SERIOUSLY
— Taraji P. Henson (@TherealTaraji) January 5, 2015
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