The Black Naturalist Community

Joseph moved to Phoenix at 15 and it was there that this community, many people who were driven out from Oakland and the Bay Area because of the racial underpinnings of this so called war on drugs. And these people opened his eyes to his own culture. He also recalled a close friend who when they were just teens was brutally assaulted by two police officers after just walking into a convenience store in a white neighborhood. Joseph says that that was a moment when he really had to face the reality of the disparities between how black people and white people see the issue of racism through their own lenses.

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