About Stop and Frisk

[loyalsister]

7. yes

It reminds me of a conversation I had about this. When I first began to learn about the way Black and Brown people have to work to survive, I began to think about the injustice of demanding that people defy the logical impulse to survive by running away. When I said as much to a friend she looked at me like I had lost my mind. Reflecting on it later brought me to tears because I realized that survival meant denying a natural impulse of self protection. Like when people are advised to "let the criminal have the money, car, etc" in the event of a potentially violent crime. It's the very essence of white supremacy to deny the humanity of non white people by imposing deficit of the doubt on Black and Brown people in policies and cultural norms.