How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
[Jolu:] "I hate to say it, but you're white. I'm not. White people get caught with cocaine and do a little rehab time. Brown people get caught with crack and go to prison for twenty years. White people see cops on the street and feel safer. Brown people see cops on the street and wonder if they're about to get searched. The way the DHS is treating you? The law in this country has always been like that for us." (10.79)
The power of skin color when faced with law enforcement isn't always equal.
Quote #8
[Trudy Doo:] "It's our goddamned city! It's our goddamned country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!" (12.106)
Here it seems like ignorance is also a kind of power. Do you have to be stupid to fight for freedom? What is Trudy even talking about here?
Quote #9
We crawled the Xnet blogs, looking for more accounts of the DHS searching people, tackling people, invading them. This was a familiar task, the same thing I'd done with all the footage and accounts from the riots in the park. I started a new category on my blog for this, AbusesOfAuthority, and filed them away. (14.94)
Publishing things online is a great way to get people talking, whether it's naked pictures of celebrities or secret government documents. Why are these examples "abuses of authority" for Marcus and Ange?