Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.

Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.