"He called for the execution of Black children. He never apologized. He never will."

#CentralPark5
#WhenTheySeeUs
"Black children must be allowed to be children ...
.. regarded as children, protected as children,
.... and forgiven for mistakes children will make."
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

― Jonathan Lethem, (The Fortress of Solitude)

“There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution."

-- Frederick Douglass
Looky here, America
What you done done-
Let things drift
Until the riots come.

― Langston Hughes

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