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Both patriotism and religion have been used to hide people of color’s concerns from the purview of whites and others for a long, long time.
May we not forget that neither criminality nor intelligence is a ”look,” ”walk,” ”culture” or ”talk.” Such thinking has robbed and shortchanged Trayvon, and too many others, of a life worth living. Ultimately, it’s a pernicious logic that allows perpetrators to walk free and blames the victim for violence inflicted upon them.
To have a black male body in the world is to be an adversary of the state -- the lived experience of a black boy born inside the American empire
