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The Medium Universe is opening up about how systemic racism has infiltrated our lives

Each week on Medium Rare, I’ll be sharing stories you might have missed that are definitely worth a second look. Got a suggestion for a piece we should feature? Pop it in the responses below!

• Officer A. Cab is owning up to a career of working as a “bastard cop.” For nearly 10 years he served as a police officer in a major metropolitan area in California, where cops routinely hassled homeless people or arrested people for sport. “As ashamed as I am to admit it, it needs to be said: stripping people of their freedom felt like a game to me for many years,” he writes.

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop

• After being immersed in multiple all-white communities as a kid, Ramesh A Nagarajah has learned to master the art of being the token Black friend. His story of the microaggressions and ignorance that he experienced in his youth, and how that influenced how he internalized his Blackness, offers a critical lesson…