A brief search of the Internet could easily pull up footage of racist encounters in parks and grocery stores, incidents that unfold while black and brown people are simply walking down the street or trying to move into an apartment or attempting to check into a hotel. The footage reveals the insults and cuts—the danger and the death—that happen daily in this country that many white Americans don’t want to know about. We saw police in Arizona accost a family at gunpoint because a four-year-old allegedly stole a doll from the dollar store. We saw Eric Garner say, over and over again, “I can’t
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