Driving while black in Virginia

Deron
3 min readJun 6, 2019
Photo by Olu Famule on Unsplash

It was 2008 or so. I was in college. One of my younger friends on campus didn’t have a car and wanted to go to a party in Norfolk, VA. We lived and studied in Hampton, VA at the time which was about a 20 minute drive away. She asked if I could give her and a friend a lift. I obliged.

We got down to the Granby Street area where all of the bars and clubs were a little after 10 PM. I had no intent to go with…

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