Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?

because white men can’t police their imagination black people are dying