Only White Men Get to Have Bad Days — and Only Folks of Color Pay for Them

A White man’s bad day is never victimless. A White man’s bad day is terror.

David Dennis, Jr.
LEVEL
Published in
4 min readMar 20, 2021

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Captain Jay Baker, of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, speaks at a press conference on March 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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David Dennis, Jr.
LEVEL

Level Sr. Writer covering Race, Culture, Politics, TV, Music. Previously: The Undefeated, The Atlantic, Washington Post. Forthcoming book: The Movement Made Us