Another day, another racist. A youth mentor in Marietta, Georgia, and the two young children he was caring for found themselves trailed by a total stranger for nearly an hour before being confronted by police on Sunday. The reason? A white woman refused to accept that white children could be babysat by a black man.
Corey Lewis was looking after the children of family friends on Sunday, and, along with his mother, took them to his local Walmart to get Subway for dinner. According to Lewis, an unnamed white woman, who, for the purpose of this article, I’ll call Child Care Charlotte, accosted him and demanded to speak to the oldest of the two children, in order to confirm that Lewis hadn’t snatched her—in that oh-so-common and devious plot where people of color feed stolen white kids five-dollar footlongs inside local big-box wage-killing superstores. Lewis declined, quite reasonably, to let a total stranger interrogate his charges, and left the store.
After threatening to take down his license plate number and call the authorities, Child Care Charlotte then followed Lewis, his mother, and the two children to Murphy’s, a local gas station, where the group dangerously filled up their car with gasoline. At this point, Lewis went on Facebook Live to document the creepy stalker. Lewis and his mother returned to Lewis’ house, and Child Care Charlotte followed them, parking a few driveways away.
That’s when the police arrived. After a short conversation with Lewis and his mother, the officer ordered the children out of the car, and quizzed them on who Lewis was and why they were with him. The kids look terrified in the Facebook Live video, and refer to their babysitter as “Mr. Lewis” while explaining that they’d just gotten some sandwiches with two trusted adults.
According to local news station CBS46, the police officer wasn’t convinced that Child Care Charlotte wasn’t hot on the case of a kidnapping charge, so his next step was to contact the children’s parents, disturbing them on their date night or whatever kid-free adventure they were trying to have.
The officer questioned the 10-year-old and the 6-year-old before calling their parents.
David Parker and Dana Mango were in disbelief.
“I said are you saying that because there’s an African American male driving my two white kids, that he was stopped and pulled over and questioned and he said I’m sorry ma’am that’s exactly what I’m saying,” Mango told CBS46.
Parker and Mango say they feel absolutely no gratitude toward Child Care Charlotte.
Instead, they feel repulsed by the behavior of the woman—who, again, remains unidentified—and don’t appreciate her creepy and unsolicited vigilance in the supposed interest of their children, who were totally safe, with bellies full of sandwiches they probably very much enjoyed.
The parents believe Lewis was stalked, harassed and questioned by police.
“B-W-B which I guess is the new thing, babysitting while black,” said Parker.
Parker and Mango said they don’t believe that the woman was trying to protect their children because they never showed any signs of being in danger.
Not that it matters, but Lewis runs his own youth center, where the younger of his two “suspicious” charges is a regular attendee.
Child Care Charlotte was not charged for wasting police resources and remains free to harass black people throughout Cobb County. The good folks at CBS46 are working to identify her.
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