“As was the case in Ferguson, the media became as much a motivating factor as the death itself. While cable news talking heads often declare that the media is to blame for mass protests--arguing that if the cameras would go… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“We fall into the fallacy of believing we can litigate the complicated story before us into a black-and-white binary of good guys and bad guys. There are no isolated incidents, yet the media's focus on the victim and the officer inadvertently erases the context of the nation's history as it relates to race, policing, and training for law enforcement. And… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share
“The theory is that legitimacy can only be earned through a long-suffering and constant presence. But that view is limiting in that it forecloses… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“A shortsighted framing, divorced from historical context, led us to litigate and relitigate each specific detail of the shooting without fully grasping the groundswell… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young black leadership… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“And by focusing on the character of the victim, we inadvertently take the focus off the powerful and instead train our eyes and judgment… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“Ferguson would birth a movement and set the nation on a course for a still-ongoing public hearing on race that stretched far past the… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“As President Obama's second term toiled on, it became increasingly clear that talk of a postracial America was no more than cheap political punditry.” — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“The role of the press in the civil rights movement also points to our larger failure as a nation to validate and trust the… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that can prepare a family for the heart-clenching shock of losing one of their own. And time and time again, those… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“The protests had created a countermovement of skepticism, anger and hate, driven by some who genuinely believed that the coverage of Ferguson was overblown… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“If it doesn't matter how the police -- the system -- treats you, does it matter how you treat them?” — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
“Justice is a hard concept to wrestle with when your eyes are filled with scenes of death.” — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
