In 2000, a Haitan American man named Patrick Dorismond was standing outside a bar in midtown Manhattan. A plainsclothes cop walked up to him and asked him where he could buy crack. “What are you doing asking me for that shit?” Dorimsond asked.

Spike Lee said that when Do The Right Thing came out, a lot of critics thought it irresponsible to show Mookie throw a trash can through the window of Sal's pizzeria bc it would encourage riots...but they had far less to say about the cops choking Radio Raheem to death 🤷🏿‍♂️

Raise your hand if your living parents and grandparents lived under Jim Crow. ??‍♂️

one of the wildest things abt white supremacy is how white people's feelings abt racism are always the terrain being contested and always presented as The Stakes.

Sandra Bland didn't signal a lane change. John Crawford was shopping at a Wal-Mart. Philando Castile was coming home from dinner.

James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old gay Black man from Mississippi. One night in 2011, he was standing in a parking lot he was attacked by a roving pack of young white dudes who had gone out to, in their words, “fuck with some niggers.”

“Our manager never intended for these men to be arrested...this should never have escalated as it did.” Calling the police introduces the prospect of arrest, and since the police are armed, the prospect of violence. Calling the police IS an escalation.

The very sole of our nation depends on it

again, Trump is only a viable candidate because of his overwhelming white support, up and down the income ladder and across generations. white voters are the constant. if Trump lightly underperformed with white voters in, say, Florida, the map looks different. But go off.

Jonathan Ferrell was asking for help after a car crash. Tamir Rice was playing in a park. Akai Gurley was walking down the stairs.