This was a country, Supreme told Chanel, with an educational system, a government, a police force, and a job market that kept people of color trapped in “the false hope of an American Dream.” “It’s all a trick, not real,” he said. “It’s all been built up to destroy us systematically, on all levels…. To empower others, at the expense of crushing the Black man, father, and husband—to render him totally ineffective and stagnant.”
