Kalief Browder: An American moral hero

Debating with myself about race and American justice

[Image: Kalief Browder, in the publicity shot for the Netflix documentary that inspired this article.]

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (Walt Whitman, Song of Myself 51)

You are about to read two texts, written days apart. They both concern the issue of American policing and how it relates to th…