(Click here to read, highlight, recommend, and comment on Medium.com) I don’t really fuck with cops. I know people who dress as pigs that I am cool with. And to be clear, I don’t wish death or injury for any individual, whether they are an officer or not. But I find it difficult to see the police as people. I see them as an extension of a system. You CANNOT maintain your integrity and be a police officer. You CANNOT maintain your standards of righteousness and decency and operate safely in that system. I do not believe for a moment that it’s possible. Standing on behalf of the people...

(Click here to read, highlight, recommend, and comment on Medium.com) Some of my very favorite people are white. And yes, I know how that sounds. But I don’t say that to prove I’m not prejudiced. I say that to contextualize my prejudice. When it comes to the struggle for Black liberation, and my perspective of the liberation of our Brown brothers and sisters, I am prejudiced against white participation. This is antithetical to who I am, which makes it a struggle. It’s a struggle because I believe in our fully equally connected humanity.It’s a struggle because I know that white people need...