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CRENSHAW: “It shouldn't be a surprise to people that individual black people can actually do anti-black things. Anyone who knows the history of enslavement, anyone who knows the history of policing knows that black people can do anti-black things. But what we were also trying to bring into the conversation is the structural dimension of anti-black racism, the fact that the incentive structures that are set up in policing are targeting particular communities, black communities. One cannot imagine this happening in a well-heeled white community. That is a racial problem that the law's consistently said is a non-problem. If we add to that the fact that the Fourth Amendment law has facilitated precisely this kind of overexposure to policing, when black people put their hands at 10 and 2 o'clock position, when they see those lights in the rear-view mirror, it’s because the Supreme Court has allowed police officers to pull us over for minor traffic infractions, even made-up infractions. And because of this overexposure to police encounters, we are overexposed to lethality at the hands of police. This is what Critical Race Theory brings to the table in understanding structural racism."