Guardian: Because white men can’t/ police their imagination/ black men are dying.” What was in your mind when you wrote that line?
C.R.: When white men are shooting black people, some of it is malice and some an out-of-control image of blackness in their minds. Darren Wilson told the jury that he shot Michael Brown because he looked “like a demon”. And I don’t disbelieve it. Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people.
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