(CNN) The Bahamas just issued a travel warning to their citizens about the United States of America. I've been to the Bahamas. It's a beautiful country with truly excellent people. When I took a cruise that docked for a couple hours in Nassau, it mostly reminded me of a giant version of my grandmother's neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama ... but with better accents. The other thing I remember was that when my wife and I took a taxi, the driver pointed out interesting spots along the way. At one point he said, "And over there in that cemetery, Anna Nicole Smith is buried." I thought to myself, "Wow! Is that what they think of Americans here in the Bahamas? Do they think Anna Nicole Smith is one of our leading lights?" I wondered how many Americans at that point in the taxi ride have yelled, "Stop the car! Pull over! I must walk around her grave seven times!" In that moment I felt like the Bahamas wasn't giving us Americans a lot of credit.W. Kamau Bell: Police and African-Americans aren't two communities in search of common groundTaking a view of the police as a separate community dangerously misses the point, he says
When I watch the video, I usually end up laughing at the disconnect between this kid's reality and the reality that most black _ experience.