Quote of the Day

Have you not seen how no matter what we do the cops come for us?  That no matter how pleasant our speech, how lowly our spirits, how tame our bodies, how domesticated our gestures, we are read as a menace and threat by so many cops?  "I feared for my life," many cops who have shot unarmed black folk have said.  Not a gun in sight.  No attack in the offing.  And yet we are consistently, without conscience, cut down in the streets.

-- Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop, p. 173