#BlackLivesMatter

The tragedies just keep happening and some people keep closing their eyes to them.  It's real.  It has to stop.

Here's the reading list again if you still don't understand:

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
•  This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, by Cherríe L. Moraga
• Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty‐First Century, by Monique W. Morris 
• Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, by Ian Haney‐Lopez   
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, by Monique W. Morris
• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, by Christopher Emdin
• The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, by Ta‐Nehisi Coates 
• Towards the "Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter, by Chris Crass