The Fire This Time: Black Youth and the Spectacle of Post-Racial Violence

(Before It's News)

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout

The killing of young Black men such as 16-year-old Kimani Gray, 12-year-old Tamir Rice and 18-year-old Michael Brown are part of a historical pattern of racial terror in which Black populations have been contained and controlled by so-called legitimate mechanisms of state violence.

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