My father recently told me a story about a family member who had to feel the South because he nearly was lynched for beating up a white sharecropper.

So does walking down the motherfucking street minding your own goddamn business. You act as though following the law means anything when it comes to Black people. This country will criminalize us any goddamn way. So again, respectability politics aren’t getting us anywhere; it’s merely stifling us from rightly cursing…