After Ferguson, Cory Booker Tweets Rodney King Column He Penned At 22

Newly-elected Democratic senator from New Jersey, former Newark Mayor Cory Booker, smiles in the Old Senate Chamber following an oath of office ceremony with Vice President Joe Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, Th... Newly-elected Democratic senator from New Jersey, former Newark Mayor Cory Booker, smiles in the Old Senate Chamber following an oath of office ceremony with Vice President Joe Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) resurfaced a column he wrote at age 22 during a discussion on Twitter about the protests in Ferguson, Mo.

In the column, Booker explains how he felt after the Rodney King decision and how he lost control of his emotions.

“I’m a black man. I am 6 feet 3 inches tall and 230 pounds, just like Rodney King. Do I scare you? Am I a threat? Does your fear justify your actions?” Booker wrote while recounting the numerous times he had been seen that way.

He described his realization about how the police view him.

“But late one night, as I walked the streets of Palo Alto, as the police car slowed down while passing me, as his steely glare met me, I realized that to him and to so many others I am and always may be a Nigger: guilty till proven innocent,” he wrote.

Booker also shared a passage written by Martin Luther King Jr. on social unrest on his Facebook page on Wednesday.

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