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Everyone Takes the Wrong Lesson From Jackie Robinson
His feat wasn’t proving that Black athletes and white athletes were equals. It was that white people could overcome their collective fear of us.
My Pain Isn’t Just ‘Black’ — It’s American, Just Like Yours
If our fellow Americans saw us as Americans — as equals, and not as Black people first — they wouldn’t need to ask what we want. To quote James Baldwin: You know exactly what I want.
The Most Dangerous Place in America for Black People Is the Imagination of Our Neighbors
We protest because we are not safe. White America turns us into a threatening presence inside their heads — and we die because of what they imagine
