Comments from Just Mercy author and Equal Justice Initiative Founder Bryan Stevenson:

“We have a history of racial inequality that we really haven’t adequately acknowledged.”

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“And then we codified our racial hierarchy through segregation. We passed the Civil Rights Act but we never dealt with this presumption.”

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“Our failure to take seriously this problem is rooted in an unwillingness to acknowledge the damage done by slavery, lynching & segregation.”

http://www.eji.org/presumption-of-dangerousness-behind-police-abuse-of-black-people-cbs-this-morning