All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.

My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.