The way we build our cities is racist
American buildings, streets, and neighborhoods don’t just host oppression—they embody it.
American buildings, streets, and neighborhoods don’t just host oppression—they embody it.
It’s written in our flesh and rehearsed throughout history.
Two days before Rusten Sheskey, a White police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, fired seven shots into the back of Jacob Blake, a Black man, at close range while three of Blake’s young children watched, the Public Religion Research Institute published its latest report on racism and police brutality.
During a summer punctuated by White police officers gunning down Black body after Black body, PRRI found that most White Christians—across denominations—continued to see such shootings as isolated incidents.