Let me ask you a question. Should I have you committed? 'Cause you've obviously lost your damn mind!
That statue, dad, is an insult to black people, glorifying an actual traitor.
You broke the law, Anissa. That gives the police an excuse to hurt you. And on top of that, you used guns! Guns!
They were water guns.
They looked enough like real guns to be the end of you. [pauses as two officers walk by] All it takes is for one cop, one cop, to see your color instead of your humanity and decide better dead than sorry. Look, you're a black woman. You don't have the luxury of being naive.
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