Joyce Carol Oates: Let's send David Brooks undercover as urban 'person of color'

Keeping marijuana illegal promotes apartheid in the United States? Joyce Carol Oates might be on to something. Colorado just legalized recreational marijuana, and look at these people of color who came out of the shadows to buy some.

This father and son from Georgia slept in their van to be here as #Colorado sells its first recreational pot pic.twitter.com/QImu0CWQ0l

— jack healy (@jackhealyNYT) January 1, 2014

Evidence of stunning Twitter videos re. police brutality & racism plus proportion of Blacks in US prison suggests de facto apartheid.

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) January 4, 2014

There’s only one sure way to get to the bottom of this “apartheid” business. Send confessed pot smoker David Brooks of the New York Times undercover in blackface, or something.

http://t.co/oBzGM4oNPF …Unfair criticism of David Brooks? Suggest fund to send him undercover w/ stained skin as urban "person of color"

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) January 4, 2014

to report first-hand on how he is treated by NYPD. (Caution: remember not to "resist" arrest.)

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) January 4, 2014