NAACP Pres.: Black Skin ‘a Cloak of Suspicion;’ White Skin a Robe of ‘Respectability’

‘We have to get beyond presumptions, beyond stereotypes’

BROOKS: "Sure. So, we are at a moment in this country where have to be morally surgical. We have to be precise. So, in other words, we are understanding that what fuels racial profiling as a country is that African-Americans are seen as being — black skin being a robe of — I should say a cloak of suspicious, white skin being a robe of protection or respectability."

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