Slave catchers tracked black people — including free black people who were never enslaved to begin with. It was legal to hunt black people.
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Yes, slave catchers sometimes tricked free blacks. There's a whole movie about that called Twelve Years a Slave. But it wasn't just that...
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Slave catchers would travel north and watched black people for erratic behavior, furtive moments — all subjective observations.
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If a free black person was maybe a little nervous, shy, or introverted, slave catchers could begin to hold that person suspect.
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Fast forward 150 years: so-called erratic behavior is criminalized — to the point of death — in black bodies.
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If you're black and are deemed by cops to have erratic behavior, make furtive moments, are shy, are nervous, that can be a death sentence.
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Case in point: cops say Alfred Olango's "erratic behavior" is essentially what got him killed. The same isn't true for whites in San Diego.
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Remember the Stop Kony 2012 dude, Jason Russell? He walked around San Diego SCREAMING OBSCENITIES, NAKED AND MASTURBATING. He didn't die.
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Jason Russell, who is white, was screaming, naked, and masturbating in public. He was gently approached by cops, placed on psychiatric hold.
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Alfred Olango, who is black, was not naked and masturbating in public. But he was shot dead by cops.
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Jason Russell is from El Cajon, by the way. Alfred Olango was from El Cajon, too. Their skin color sets them apart: life and death.
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Until we confront history (especially its more uncomfortable parts) and begin to understand how it informs the present, little will change.
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