“Mississippi’s legal system in the 1950s protected white men who could not police their imaginations. Today, our country’s legal system protects law enforcement officers who cannot police their imaginations. There can be no fine distinction made between the circumstances of these deaths.” Powerful work by Ralph Eubanks, linking past racial violence, and its context, to the racial violence now– with a lovely bind of a line from Claudia Rankine.
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