The Real host Loni Love is releasing her new memoir, I Tried to Change So You Don’t Have To, later this month, and in the book she tells the story of her first experience with the criminal justice system.
Love reveals that when she was in college in the 1990s, a white cop arrested her over a soda. Love grew up in the Detroit projects, and she described her childhood as being enshrined by a “cocoon of blackness” and she never had to deal with the police.
However, when she moved to Texas for college, things were a lot different. The talk show host says that at the time she was working as a cashier, and one night after work she went out dancing with her friend Keisha.
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