The cold reality is that what’s happening in the US and the gross over policing of cities led by Black leadership is that it’s not really all that different from the every day reality of Black folks in the States since we were kidnapped and brought here.

Law enforcement was literally created to surveil and harass Black folks after Emancipation because of white fears around a backlash for slavery.

What is SHOCKING for a lot of people is just another day for us.

Because it’s always been like this for people who look like me.