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Topic: respectability politics

A demonstrator confronts police near Camden Yards, Baltimore, April 25, 2015. (Reuters/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Black America's Baltimore rift

Brittney Cooper
A protestor faces a line of police during clashes in Baltimore, Maryland April 27, 2015. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

How they ignore Black America

Jay Driskell
Jonathan Capehart, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby (MSNBC/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Eric Thayer)

Stop poisoning the race debate

Brittney Cooper
Nicholas Kristof, Charles Blow (AP/Evan Agostini/CNN)

New York Times' lesson in race

Joan Walsh
(AP/Frank Franklin Ii/Charlie Riedel)

America just doesn't get it

Jay Driskell
Police in riot gear detain a demonstrator in Ferguson, Missouri, Aug. 19, 2014. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

America's toxic race rule

Elias Isquith
Charles Barkley, Chris Rock, Bill Cosby (Reuters/Dominick Reuter/AP/Chris Pizzello/Todd Williamson/Photo montage by Salon)

Chris Rock's poisonous legacy

Mychal Denzel Smith
Ida B. Wells, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Wikimedia/MSNBC)

Black women overlooked again

Brittney Cooper