“No Dark Clothes, No Hoodies”

This isn’t freedom. This is bondage. But this is where we are.

I went from anger to compassion after watching this. Although no amount of “respectability” can protect us from racial profiling, I have to remember that he’s talking about his attempts at survival for his sons.

How many other black children in America were/are taught this? How many of us have been taught this?

This is what racism does. This is what victim blaming does.

Ubuntu,

From Aspiring Humanitarian, Relando Thompkins, MSW, LLMSW

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