The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

The Trump voter isn't just an ignorant white guy in the South that if he were more educated would vote differently. The Trump voter is also someone who is dealing with an entirely new economy that his father, grandfather or grandmother didn't have to face 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery. Changed hearts and minds are important. But they do little against the backdrop of a system that needs to exploit people and labor to survive. I'm more interested in changed systems than changed hearts.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!