Gyasi Ross: Native Americans Are Simultaneously Over-Policed and Under-Protected

RUSH EXCERPT:

ROSS: “Yeah. Definitely. I mean, we get the, you know, short schriff, the hort end of the stick in both regards. We are simultaneously, somehow, overpoliced, overkilled, overexecuted, overimprisoned, overenforced by law enforcement, but yet, underprotected in every single regard. And of course, we talked about this before, the Hallmark of racism against native people is not the fact that we’re killed by law enforcement at such a high rate or that we’re suspended and expelled from schools at such a high rate or we’re the victims of violent crime at such a high rate, but the Hallmark of native American racism, racism against native people, is that nobody knows any of those things. We do it in aminity in the light of day.”