This picture made me think of something else. When I was working at the library in Galveston, Texas, a city with a large black population, a co-worker once complained that the blacks, not willing to work, wanted food stamps and government assistance (I believe the term used was "hand-outs"), but they all managed to have expensive smart phones.
I didn't say it at the time, and I should have, that smart phones aren't necessarily expensive. But what I didn't even think, and I should have, is that to a black person, a smart phone is not a luxury, but a necessity. Without the ability to record what's happening to them, there wouldn't even be the current "conversation" about how they're treated in the "law enforcement" system.
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