Jess Brooks
On Race — isms
1 min readAug 16, 2014

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“For the sake of Michael Brown”

“In many North County municipalities, it seems police run contests to see how many young black men you can pull over, flaunting the officers’ power and the motorists’ powerlessness. Our young men especially are regularly inconvenienced and humiliated while simply trying to get where they are going. The Missouri Attorney General annually releases a report, which no black person needs to read, that documents appalling disparities in how often black drivers are pulled over and searched, compared to white people, all over the state and the region.”
http://stlamerican.com/news/editorials/article_aead72b4-2350-11e4-83a0-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=jqm

This IS the essential reading on Ferguson and Mike Brown.

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Jess Brooks
On Race — isms

A collection blog of all the things I am reading and thinking about; OR, my attempt to answer my internal FAQs.