“What if they had taken you to jail?” she asked. “Do you want to throw your life away? Being innocent doesn’t mean anything to the police. You think they care? To them, you’re just another Black boy in America!” I think about that a lot. I think about you a lot. You are the closest thing I will ever have to a brother. Now that I can see the different trajectories our lives have taken, I understand the privilege of contemplating absolute freedom. You are in a state-sanctioned loophole that legalized enslavement, and I am just a Black man in America. And neither one of us is all-the-way free. I
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