Opinion: There Is Nowhere Safe When You're Black

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Self-protection has always meant something different for Black people than it does for whites who fetishize the Second Amendment: With guns, they protect their way of life; Black people protect themselves from that way of life.
49% : Black Lives Matter and all the other movements and campaigns for justice feel like politics, all in a day's work -- or a generation's work -- of being Black.
45% : For all the progress on civil rights made in the last couple of generations, Black people apprehended by law enforcement in 2023 have no real expectations of safety.
40% : The ongoing police violence feels sanctioned by the ideological violence of the anti-wokeness movement, which formed to counter the Black Lives Matter movement that started a decade ago with the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a man in Sanford, Florida, who wasn't a cop but who imagined himself to be.

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