Baltimore Wants To Hold Some Cops Personally Accountable for Misconduct
Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 08:25PM One of my heroes is a psychologist named Amos Wilson. He passed away many years ago, but one brilliant thing he said all the way back in the 1980s always stuck with me. It’s simple, but profound. “I often get people to ask me why white racism is so prevalent in this nation,” Wilson said. “Why do they get away with saying and doing so much of what they say and do that causes us harm? How can they lynch us or shoot us or strangle us and get away with it over and over and over again? And my answer to those questions may surprise you: They do all of that …because they can.”
Wilson no doubt believed in the prevalence of racism and bigotry. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941, he came of age during the height of Jim Crow in a place that was ravaged by it.
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