Black criminality is more than myth; it is socially engineered prophecy. If you believe a people to be inhuman, you confine them to inhuman quarters and inhuman labor, and subject them to inhuman policy. When they then behave inhumanely to each other, you take it is as proof of your original thesis.

The Banality Of Richard Cohen And Racist Profiling - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic (via alecresnick)