Far too often do we over exaggerate the good and neglect the bad within ourselves.  Autonomy is one of the most important differences between men and animals.  Take a nice long look at what you do to take full advantage of the one true gift that we all hold: the opportunity to positively affect the world around us, providing aide and support to those who need it.  As cliché as it may sound, fight the good fight, man.  Step in front of the nearest mirror and ask yourself, “What am I doing to help those who need it?”.  Here's your mirror, America.
Stop abusing your privileges; they only exist because others don't have them.  Start consciously critiquing the world around you, looking for the moments and actions that favor one group of people and destroy another.
This issue's... issue is on one of these moments:  young black men are being shot down by white officers of the law... ALL THE TIME.  You've heard the stories and read the headlines, as have I.  “Black Cop Shot by White Officer”, “Police Killing of 12-Year-Old DeAunta Terrell Farrow”, “Cops in Three Cities Gunned Down Black Men”, “Cop Will Not Be Charged in Fatal Shooting of Black Officer”, and so forth and so on.  Many many more accounts of this scenario can be found in any newspaper's archived documents.
Let's flip this around.  WHITE MEN ARE GUNNED DOWN BY BLACK OFFICERS.  What-the-f*ck?!  For real?  Even if this situation were to happen, the officers responsible would be put to death or in the very least, jailed for a long time.  However, back in the real world, the officers at fault are typically lightly reprimanded or suspended for a few weeks, but their lives aren't ruined.   
I'm not asking you to start a “war on the pigs”.  I'm not telling you that all cops are horrible people.  I just want you to pay more attention to the situations that we encounter every day.  Things that have become so commonplace that to do some role swapping completely shakes the foundation of the world. I mean, for real... WHITE MEN ARE GUNNED DOWN BY BLACK OFFICERS.  What-the-f*ck?!  By putting that tool into your box, you can more easily avoid using your privileges for bad and start enhancing the world in which you live.  
Good luck.

Volume One: An Explanation of “The One Way Street”
      In our modern, rational, American society (as with most, if not all societies these days), a person is born with a set of privileges based solely on skin color, gender, nationality, sexuality, and ability.  This set, determined by chance, situates her or him on the hierarchy of hegemony.  Other privileges can be {somewhat} chosen, like economic status, political affiliation, religion, etc., but still have a place on the hierarchy.  Needless to say, the closer to the top a person is, the more privileges she or he is garnished with (deserving of them or not); the closer to the bottom, the more oppression.  Watching the news can highlight this hierarchy with precision, showing the drastic imbalance that this creates.
      “The One Way Street” was created to shed light on situations that drastically favor one particular group of privileged individuals, typically the closest to the hegemonic, dominant form.  By reversing the role of oppressor and oppressed, the imagery created will hopefully move something inside the reader.  This is not a personal piece.  It is collective.  It affects each of us every day.  Only when the institutionalization of privilege based on physiology gives way to privilege based on character will anyone in our society truly be free.
      Our first “One Way” focuses on the prevalence of domestic violence against women.  It is extremely rare to have to abuse go the other way around, but we all know that people do in fact drive the wrong way up a one way street sometimes… rarely, but sometimes it does happen.  We hope our series makes you think hard about where American normalcy seems to be.  After reading hundreds of headlines about men murdering, abusing, raping, and stalking women, it became quite apparent that this disturbing issue should be tackled.
Thank you for reading.
-Jaime and Aajay