We are entering a new and very strange stage of the mainstream racial discourse. This is way over the top: “My book is coming out in a few months, and I don’t know if I’m going to be alive to see it, because I’m a black man.”
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What is he suggesting so-called white people who profess to want to have a relationship with him do as an alternative to reaching out and texting? “pay legal fees for black people who are unjustly arrested, imprisoned or killed or to black politicians running for office.” 
Low on funds but still want to text with him? First you’d better “text your relatives and loved ones telling them you will not be visiting them or answering phone calls until they take significant action in supporting black lives either through protest or financial contributions”
To my knowledge, no one with a major book deal of any ethnicity has been killed by US cops in my lifetime. Am I wrong here?
I don’t say that glibly. I mean it seriously. Police abuse is a serious problem in American society. But these histrionics are totally counterproductive.
