" I can understand having been raised to believe that cops are the good guys, that racism lives in the uneven icing and not the flour and milk of the great American cake, but how can some Americans hear all these stories, line up all these body bags, and somehow still think we’re all lying? That lightning struck all these Black men randomly and without malice or systemic ease? "

― Ben Philippe , Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump