So I reread Letter from a Birmingham Jail yesterday, and every time I reread it I get something new from it.
One thing that hit me today was that he described sleeping in his car because hotels were not available to Black folks. Now doing that would get you put in jail in many places as we increasingly criminalize vagrancy and homelessness. As if the lack of available lodging is the fault of those who don't have it.
There's a thousand things to dwell on, but today that's the one that rings with me.
It's not explicitly racial, but it still hurts a higher percentage of the people who would have been excluded racially. I think of the people who respond to Black Lives Matter & Defund the Police by arguing that more white people get killed by cops too as if that makes it okay.
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