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Many wore T-shirts pro-claiming “I am Mike Brown” and held signs calling for the need to “Indict America.” These demonstrations led social media users to claim that “#Ferguson is everywhere,” emphasizing the connection between online and offline forms of protest.

If Americans used standards, like does this person contribute to society, to the common good, then we’d have to admit that many white people don’t measure up and don’t even try to measure up because they are not expected to.

In 1991, a homemade VHS tape of Los Angeles res-ident Rodney King being brutally beaten by four police officers sparked outrage across the country and galvanized thousands in what is widely recognized as one of the most influential examples of citizen journalism in the United States (Allan and Thorsen 2009). Today, 56 percent of the U.S. population carries video-enabled smartphones, and the use of mobile technology is particularly high among African Americans

If you ask around in Ferguson, you get a slightly different story

Oh say can you see, this is the American Dream Young boy, hustlin' Tryna get the wheels in motion But he can be anything at all In America, America

I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn’t just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it’s violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

You never really speak except for the time she makes her request and later when she tells you you smell good and have features more like a white person

Black people can't be racist. Prejudice, yes, but not racist. Racism describes a system of disadvantage based on race. Black people can't be racist since we don't stand to benefit from such a system

revenge squirming alive in your mouth strangling you quiet from the inside out.

"We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom."

"You think 50 cents reads? Allen Iverson? What you ought to do is put some of your people's streets in that LL Bean satchel."

The levels of violence against a people whose ancestors were subjected to the largest forced migration in human history—in the belly of intercontinental slave ships—is shameful beyond words

“I heard about the attack on innocent people. I couldn’t just stand by.”