For William, the Ranger, the law would save us by protecting us – by prosecuting crimes against us as zealously as it prosecutes crimes against whites. No, Clayton, the defense lawyer, said: the law is a lie black folks need protection from – a set of rules that were written against us from the time ink was first set to parchment.
-Attica Locke
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