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They say “time heals”, but even now … I know that’s a lie. What people really mean is that eventually you’ll get used to the pain. You’ll forget who you were without it; you’ll forget what you looked like without your scars.

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Police on video, Black men in prison, and what white people should be doing.

I had an idea for a blog I wanted to write about Alton Sterling, and then Philando Castile was murdered. I had a new idea for a blog I wanted to write, but Selma sent me some texts this morning about the murders and the videos and what we should be doing, and I can’t get my mind to focus. This is what I keep coming back to:

A lot of us know someone or know someone who knows someone (and so forth) who has been beaten up or murdered by the police. Or our parents do. Or we heard stories growing up. The further removed from this current generation, the more those stories were just word of mouth and neighborhood gossip, but with cellphones, there’s evidence. The rage I feel (we feel) right now isn’t just the product of seeing another dead Black body. It’s never just about the murder. It’s the realization that our grandparents’ police officers got off for these murders because it was our word against the police. Now, so many of these cases are video against the police, and there’s still no justice. Los Angeles didn’t riot in 1992 because Rodney King was beaten half to death. They rioted because it was on video and his attackers in uniform weren’t punished.

What do we have to do in order to win these cases? What do we have to do to feel safe in our own bodies against an institution that hates and fears us in equal parts? Video is a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t lead directly to convictions: it leads to support from white people.

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