Why do people expect black people to be magic? Black people are as susceptible to cultural messaging of white supremacy as anybody else. We just have a little more reason to resist and more friends willing to help us.

But we shouldn’t be surprised when a guy like Daniel Cameron buys into and supports the system of white violence against black bodies. He learned it from the same places white people learned it. And, like lots of whites, wasn’t strong enough to resist.

Cameron is not, to my mind, a “sellout.” He’s just a tool. A tool of the White supremacist system unable or unwilling to oppose it. He didn’t betray anybody because ain’t nobody who knows what he’s about counted on him to be any better than he is.

Treating black people as so valueless that their murder warrants no charges is *learned* behavior. Black people are capable of learning that as well as anybody.

There’s nothing White people can do that Black people can’t do: that includes helping cops get away with murder.