But you are human and you will make mistakes. You will misjudge. You will yell. You will drink too much. You will hang out with people you shouldn't. Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson-not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. But the price of error is higher for you than it is for your countrymen, and so that America might justify itself, the story of a black body's destruction must always begin with his or her error, real or imagined-with Eric Garner's anger, with Trayvon Martin's mythical words {"You are gonna die tonight"}, with Sean Bell's mistake of running with the wrong crowd, with me standing too close to the small-eyed boy pulling out.
( Ta-Nehisi Coates )
[ Between the World and Me ]
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