The erasure of #$%! race

In Ferguson, Missouri, last Saturday, an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown was killed by a police officer. This is not uncommon in America: The Root has a slideshow of twenty such incidents since 1999 (it doesn’t include Trayvon Martin; another one happened on Monday). Here are some things these men were doing when they were killed: leaving a birthday party, climbing the stairs, getting ready to get married, kneeling, lying face-down, riding a bike, using a water fountain, fleeing Hu...