I've discovered that the most radical thing that can be said about black people is that we are totally, utterly and immutably ordinary. I wish such a statement weren't so radical. I wish it didn't need to be said. But after Trayvon Martin's shooting death; after the acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman; after the arguments that the teen was so out of control - school suspension, marijuana smoking - that he needed to be put down, it feels necessary to say it and say it repeatedly: We are ordinary.
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