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Its amazing how a story we would scoff at if any other person told it becomes gospel truth to us when a police officer tells it: to believe that (Michael) Brown charged at (Darren) Wilson in the midst of a hail of gunfire is to believe that black people are monsters, mythical superhuman creatures, who do not understand the physics of bullets, even as they rip through flesh. To white people, who co-sign Wilson’s account of events, this seems like an entirely reasonable assertion, one helped along by a lifetime of media consumption that represents black masculinity as magical, monstrous and mythic... alternet.org/civil-liberties/why-americas-sense-black-humanity-so-skewed?page=0%2C1&paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 03:06:42 +0000

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