America placed whites above blacks—and built a whole society around it

john a. powell quoted on Raw Story, August 10, 2015

“Through our practices, through our culture, and certainly through our policing, we send a message every day that black lives don’t matter,” he said. In the way we call white neighborhoods “good” areas and black neighborhoods “bad,” powell said that “we have institutionalized fear of the racial other and arranged society around it.”