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Donald Trump essentially endorsed police brutality before a gathering of police officers in Long Island, says Jesse Jackson.

Mom, I keep hearing stories about boys who look like me

Lezley McSpadden is not here to bullshit you.

It seems when an issue comes to a head in the black community, we derive resolutions based on historical figures and the dialogical self. It seems like you have to choose between Marcus Garvey's black-nationalist and separatist ideals, W.E.B. DuBois' elitist talented tenth and assimilative ideals, and Booker T. Washington's bootstrap reasoning. At some point sociological issues intersect with your blackness. You have to believe in something and you have to do something, even though the

Leonard Pitts Jr. sets out to answer the question of what we can do to stem police violence against unarmed black men.

So many innocent lives have been snuffed out by racist violence

We don't know whether Chavis Carter was killed or committed suicide, but his death is fraught by the terrible history of police violence against blacks.