“My advice to someone like you is to always stay close to the gray area and keep yourself and your family safe. Stay away from any place where you can run into police that's the advice I give to you and to all young black men in this country. The police are for the protection of white people, my brother. Maybe black women and black children sometimes, but not black men. Never black men. Black men and police are palm oil and water. You understand me, eh?” (CHAPTER 11)
This quote interests me because this is what America has brought itself to, making black Americans (especially American men) fear for their lives every day. Men of color aren’t as protected as they should be and that is a problem. In America, men of color are hard workers who are just trying to find their American dream in the same way Jende tried to, but similarity, they’ve been chewed up and spit out in front of their worst enemies, the police, uncle sam, I.C.E. and so on. Men of color have it much harder anywhere in the world, compared to men of no color, all because of the pigment in their skin. Men of color are judged not by how well they perform, but how easily manipulative they can be, and how they can be exploited. It is rarely about what they can offer to America and more about how America can use and blame them for all the bad occurring.
This quote interests me because this is what America has brought itself to, making black Americans (especially American men) fear for their lives every day. Men of color aren’t as protected as they should be and that is a problem. In America, men of color are hard workers who are just trying to find their American dream in the same way Jende tried to, but similarity, they’ve been chewed up and spit out in front of their worst enemies, the police, uncle sam, I.C.E. and so on. Men of color have it much harder anywhere in the world, compared to men of no color, all because of the pigment in their skin. Men of color are judged not by how well they perform, but how easily manipulative they can be, and how they can be exploited. It is rarely about what they can offer to America and more about how America can use and blame them for all the bad occurring.
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