'I was literally standing in my own driveway. It felt like I was robbed, like my security in this space, my home, was being taken. It took a minute to just come down,' retired MLB player Doug Glanville writes.
52, has worn many hats. He was the first African American graduate of an Ivy League college to play major league baseball. He spent nine seasons patrolling the outfield for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Chicago Cubs, and the Texas Rangers, before retiring in 2004. Since then he has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other major publications, and has written a book about baseball, The Game From Where I Stand.
My dad was from Trinidad and came to the United States in the mid-1950s as a 31-year-old freshman at Howard University, after he had been long-established as a teacher. He came with a certain hope beyond the words and tenets of America—believing in this opportunity to live them and holding America to them. He eventually got his medical degree and established a psychiatric practice. My mom was raised in the Jim Crow South. She was a born teacher, embracing her parents’ emphasis on education.
That’s not to say the incident at camp was the only time a racial slur was thrown at me. When I was ten, I was walking home from school, and a man sitting on his porch called me the N-word, waved a switchblade, and dared me to come over. This was in the town that I extol the virtues of. I thought? I heard similar stuff after high school baseball games when our team played in towns that didn’t like Teaneck’s diversity.
I was literally standing in my own driveway. It felt like I was robbed, like my security in this space, my home, was being taken. It took a minute to just come down. Why was he there? You have an officer from another town stopping someone across this border and no introduction, no anything. Coming at me demanding to know if I’m shoveling for money. It was absurd, but I just didn’t know what to do. I also was thinking about my own safety.
The first step was understanding. I met with the Hartford chief of police, the West Hartford police, that town’s city manager, and chair of the board of education. West Hartford is a bedroom community, and many of its residents had been embarrassed to hear what had happened., which the editors titled, “I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway.
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