All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

What connection does the author make between himself and a police uniform in the memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto?

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At the end of the narrative, the author references how the standard blue of police uniforms represented, for him, a "blue"-ness that he wanted to avoid. Specifically, he describes how the blue of the uniform represents the tendency, or the habit, of the police to resort to violence when interacting with Black and/or queer people. He says that his resistance to the idea and experience of such violence is part of the "blue" that the title suggests that he and "boys" like him do not necessarily, or automatically, want to engage with.

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All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, BookRags