My dad was far from perfect. He was an asshole more often than not in his youth. He beat up other kids. He called people names. He drank his days away. He broke his nose so many times in fights that he had to have a nose job. The cops arrested my dad here and there, but they always released him to his parents without charges. The cops didn’t beat him. They didn’t see him as a threat despite his black belt ranking. They didn’t kill him. He was White.

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