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Taraji P. Henson talked with Uptown magazine about how she was forced to take matters into her own hands after her 20-year-old son was racially profiled by USC police. Apparently, being the son of a celebrity didn’t stop police from harassing him.

To eliminate the possibility of it happening again, Taraji decided that he would instead enroll in a Historically Black College or University. “My child has been racially profiled,” Taraji explains to Uptown.

“He was in Glendale, California, and did exactly everything the cops told him to do, including letting them illegally search his car. It was bogus because they didn’t give him the ticket for what he was pulled over for.”

It’s clear that the Empire starlet will protect her biological son with the same level of intensity as her television character, Cookie, does for her sons on their Fox hit drama.

Taraji goes on to say, “Then he’s at University of Southern California, the school that I was going to transfer him to, when police stopped him for having his hands in his pockets. So guess where he’s going? Howard University. I’m not paying $50K so I can’t sleep at night wondering is this the night my son is getting racially profiled on campus.”

Did Taraji make the right decision altering her son’s college preference?