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Leonard Pitts: Black people are tired of having to explain ourselves

We’ve never known a country wherein some white people did not feel they had the absolute, God-ordained prerogative to regulate us.

A person tapes a sign to a door at a Starbucks Coffee shop, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, in Philadelphia. After the arrests of two black men, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, at this location, Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide on Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company is taking to try to restore its tarnished image as a hangout where all are welcome.(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)