Where black brothers like Stokely were intent on bringing down the white man—a “devil” in their eyes—and his racist-centered society and dominant government structure, brothers like me were caught in a netherworld common to black officers, a “phantom-like” void in which we were too black for the white community we served as well as some of our fellow officers, and too “blue,” for the color of the uniform we wore, for our fellow “soul brothers” steeped in the cause of civil rights/social revolution beneficial for the black community.
