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He is taken back to his hotel.
What happens when a African-American in his own home shows ID to police officer in a white neighborhood?
He is taken away in handcuffs.
In case you didn’t catch the story, Bob Dylan was confronted by police in Long Branch, NJ when a homeowner called police because an “eccentric-looking old man” was seen looking at the “For Sale” sign in their yard.
The story is reported by the media as a piece of amusement since the two twenty-something officers did not recognize the folk legend.
Dylan had no ID to produce, and did not know the name of his hotel – only that it was a big one by the ocean with tour buses in front of it.
Would these courtesies have been extended to Henry Louis Gates? – IW
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