Professor Kevin Fellez, director of Studies on the Diaspora of Afro-Americans and Africans at Columbia University and co-director of former Center for the Study of Social Difference workin group, Pacific Climate Circuits , spoke with the Chilean newspaper, El Fénix in a piece titled, "I Can't Breathe": Accounts of Anti-racist Protests in the United States about systemic racism, police brutality, and the mainstream rhetoric that is used to justify police brutality.