So as a little girl, I was all into the "surfer dude" stuff. Like a fish... I LUUUVVVVEEEEDDDDEDDDD the beach, the ocean, the sand and stuff.
In fact, my mother had to dayum near give me whuppins to leave the beach--like I ackted so ugly that I tole my mama I was gonna run away & live with Shamu...
In fact, my mother would have to scare me to death to get me into the car are leave the beach!!!
But when I became a teenager and started looking at the boys and tried to cute
with by bikini on, etc. Aside from dudes not looking at me, really and if they did they were drunkard toothless homeless dudes, I got harassessed OFTEN by the po-po by just being on the beach even if I hungout with my non-AA girlfriends who were sunbathing like I was (don't ask with my logic about that one)--just because of the color of my skin...
It happenend in Catalina, San Diego and the O.C. beaches--all the time...
The only safest area for me to hangout on the Beach without getting harassessed by law enforcement in San Diego is this place called South Mission before all the gangs started shooting. This was in the mid to late 1980's...
Recently, when I visited the O.C. my husband and I were often being followed by the po-po just because we were on the Beach...
In fact, I used to work at Scripps Institution of Oceanography that is on La Jolla Shores... I'd get harrassed...
I'd havta go to Windansea beach...
Harrassment by the po-po is VERY humiliating especially when you're trying to look cute and you are really aren't doing anything other than crossing the street...
But that is what happens daily on SoCal beaches...
Unless the beach has basketball courts, the po-po thinks there is no other reason why people of color need to be there...
That is a fact in the day in the life of Southern California... Just the way it is...