You can go a long way in this country, killing Black folk. Young males especially.
If [they] were killing white women, black children, tourists… One white ex-cheerleader tourist missing in Aruba…
Trouble is, this ain’t Aruba, bitch.
You think that if 300 white people were killed in this city every year, they wouldn’t send the 82nd Airborne? Negro, please.
The Wire, a conversation between Baltimore detectives sitting in a bar
As the tenure of America’s first black president comes to a close, race relations have deteriorated to a point not seen since the 1960’s. Since the police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, there has been a regularly recurring cycle in the U.S. public mind: a black man is killed by police under suspicious circumstances, footage comes out from police or bystanders, there are protests, sometimes followed by rioting and looting and more violence, followed by police officers being excused of all wrong doing or going on paid vacation, then more rioting and looting.
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