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aubrey
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“But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful—the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements.”
just incredible
— 8 hours, 23 min ago
just incredible
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aubrey
is 48% done
“And so to challenge the police is to challenge the American people who send them into the ghettos armed with the same self-generated fears that compelled the people who think they are white to flee the cities and into the Dream. The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.”
THIS
— 8 hours, 14 min ago
THIS
aubrey
is 43% done
“Everything that was the past seemed to be another life. There was before you, and then there was after, and in this after, you were the God I’d never had. I submitted before your needs, and I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival’s sake. I must survive for you.”
coates’ love for his son is so, so beautiful… this is what fatherhood should always be
— 8 hours, 30 min ago
coates’ love for his son is so, so beautiful… this is what fatherhood should always be
aubrey
is 42% done
“There are people whom we do not fully know, and yet they live in a warm place within us, and when they are plundered, when they lose their bodies and the dark energy disperses, that place becomes a wound.”
i don’t think i’ve ever read or heard someone describe and put this specific feeling into words before and now that i have i will never forget it
— 8 hours, 37 min ago
i don’t think i’ve ever read or heard someone describe and put this specific feeling into words before and now that i have i will never forget it
aubrey
is 26% done
“White America” is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Sometimes this power is direct (lynching), and sometimes it is insidious (redlining). But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, “white people” would cease to exist for want of reasons.”
WOW
— Feb 24, 2026 12:10PM
WOW
