Care does not look like police patrolling blighted neighborhoods in search of people who fit the description of the assumed criminal, to fill up jail cells and meet quotas, both built on the false premise that black people are more prone to violence. Instead, care looks like neighbors passionately intervening to ensure the safety of people they know, and strangers they don’t, who have been assailed by police, many times for no reason other than the color of their skin. I observed many interventions as a youth. Care—the kind of support that one gives to push another toward wholeness—is not a
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