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kwassa

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3. There he was, driving while black again.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2013, 09:30 PM

Aug 2013

I remember a fairly furious Forest Whitaker on some talk show, talking about how he had been pulled over, shortly after he had received an Academy Award nomination, in Los Angeles.

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