Tag: A white woman called police on black people barbecuing. This is how the community responded – CNN

( CNN) Hundreds danced to hip-hop and ‘8 0s being music Sunday and listened to local African-American candidates make their pitches. But this cookout in Oakland, California, wasn’t just any spring festival. The event, dubbed “BBQing While Black, ” was one community’s powerful response to what many perceived as yet another example of everyday racism.