Fifteen miles from Sanford, Florida, and twelve years before it’s made famous by the death of Trayvon Martin, a third-shift marble worker for a swanky Orlando hotel sits his 13-year-old son down and explains how to be brown in front of the police. My father is teaching me how to be human. He knows it is hard to shoot someone you look at as human. Body Terrorism is at its core about denying ones humanity. It takes a radical self love to thrive in the face of dehumanization. buff.ly/1w5lATl [Image: photograph shows a very small black boy standing in the middle of the street. he is wearing a red baseball cap, a brown coat and blue jeans. He is standing in profile. In the distance, coming toward the boy is a cop car with flashing lights and numerous police officers running behind the police car.]
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:00:44 +0000