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Black People are Not Jason Bourne

Dear White People:

Black People are not CIA-trained Special Activities assassins (police will leave you thinking we are)

A movie-still of Jason Bourne looking through a sniper rifle scope. Jason Bourne is a fictional CIA Special Activities Division operator (read: elite assassin). He’s played by Matt Damon.

These are the things police say, either by their tongue or actions, or a combination of both.

I often ponder the minds of white people when it comes to Black people. What do they see us as in order to justify so much death and violence upon us? What do white people see us as to endorse police brutality upon us? To allow police to routinely murder random innocent Black people minding our own business, one has to figure that we are uniquely dangerous in our existence. But how dangerous? Jason Bourne dangerous?

Jason Bourne is a fictional CIA assassin from American cinema. Here is animated gif showing off his CQC skills. / The Bourne Identity (2002)

“Jason Bourne dangerous” is the reasonable threat level I can imagine for police to shoot and kill people on sight. It still would be messed up, but I get it.

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