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How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People QUOTES

1 " Be patient; don't judge a book by its racist, oppressive cover.
Any police shooting is bound to be investigated, so wait for all the facts to be known and dismissed.
In the end, it might be that white people think you deserved to be shot. But if you're lucky, the police will start shooting even the most lovable white people and we'll finally get some reforms! "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

2 " That's the essence of being profiled: judging someone on first impressions. So again, you are being asked to do better than the cop who pulled you over for the "broken taillight". Don't you go around profiling all cops! "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

3 " The thing is that most of the people arrested in this country are white. Most of the people who shoot cops aren’t black. So what is it that makes cops think and act extra aggressively toward black people? "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

4 " Cops don’t usually shoot people holding books, but you never know what might “look like a gun. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

5 " Trump wonders why we can’t have more people coming from places like Norway? Why would they come? They live better there. Europeans come to America like you go to the circus to see the fucking animals. That’s why. You come to shop, take a picture where Brad Pitt slept, and to see the fucking animals. It’s a tour. You’re not coming to live here. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

6 " You say comply with police orders, we still get shot. You say don’t break the law, we still get shot. You say don’t talk back, we still get shot. You say be more like white people, dress differently, act differently, and yet the results are not the same as for white people. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

7 " It costs so much to be poor that nobody can afford to do it. "

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8 " The implication is that if you weren’t guilty, you wouldn’t get shot. Sure, the death penalty is supposed to be for those tried and convicted of heinous, premeditated capital murder, but let’s not get bogged down in details. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

9 " Only when white people come to terms with the white-on-white crime problem can we finally tackle the even more pernicious problem of male-on-male crime, which grows year after year. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

10 " Key wrote it during the War of 1812, when the British troops offered freedom to enslaved black Americans if they’d fight on their side, which is just what they did. A group of former slaves fought on the British side, whooped Key’s ass, and he wanted to kill them. In the third verse, he says: "

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11 " Morgan State University political science professor Jason Johnson recently wrote on “The Root of our National Anthem,” “It is one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon. . . . ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

12 " And everyone got mad about Kaepernick tweeting an image of a police badge and a slave catcher’s badge with the caption “You Can’t Ignore Your History—Always Remember Who They Are.” People can get mad, but he was telling the truth: throughout the South, that’s exactly how police departments started. Police in the South were in charge of maintaining the economic order, especially retaining the “property” of slave owners. After the Civil War, the cops were back in action making sure that blacks were staying in their place. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

13 " Every few months, white people trot out a new title in a series called Cops Keep Killing People. Each new release has the latest tragic scene on the cover. It sure seems to be the same book recycled over and over, but please don't form a judgment until you read all five hundred pages. Maybe this time the story will end differently and the cops will be the hero! "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

14 " most slaves were brought over from Africa before 1808, even before the end of slavery in 1865. That means most African Americans’ ancestors arrived decades if not centuries before the waves of Irish, German, Italian, Jewish, and Polish immigration. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

15 " If you do get shot by the police, you’d better believe there will be an investigation—of you, anyway. Hope you don’t have a criminal record! When a black suspect is shot, the media and their accomplices in the police department will be sure to make that public. Everyone will know that you “were no angel.” That’s apparently justification enough for police brutality, even killing. “See, he was a bad dude—you can understand how he might get shot.” Bad dudes get what they deserve. So Michael Brown deserved to die because he robbed a convenience store. So Eric Garner deserved to die because he sold illegal cigarettes. "

― , How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People