Culture Quote by Trip Lee

This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I can't think of an experience I've had with police that I felt was based on race, which is one difference between England and…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are…

— Conor Lamb

As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.

— Malik Yoba

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

— Rodney King

The relationship between police and African-Americans has probably always been strained.

— Harrison Barnes

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually…

— Courtney B. Vance

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

— Jess Row

I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country.

— Chad Wolf

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of…

— Tim Kaine

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be…

— Benjamin Crump