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Facial recognition cameras are abundant at the venue, acting as the arena’s all-seeing eyes.

Forcing residents in neighborhoods with higher crime rates to live under constant, all-seeing digital scrutiny will neither make people safer from the systematic harms they face, including police violence, nor patch up their rocky relationship with the police who are sworn to protect and serve them.

By Tuesday afternoon, a delegate was spotted on the convention floor by the all-seeing cameras of C-SPAN sporting a piece of paper over his ear, in solidarity.

As Parham wrote in his oral history, “It is both news and analysis, call and response, judge and jury — a comedy showcase, a therapy session and family cookout all in one. Black Twitter is a multiverse, simultaneously an archive and an all-seeing lens into the future.”

Hidden meaning lurks everywhere: a foreboding white statue of a young girl frozen in time; an all-seeing eye drawn on the glass, hovering above the horizon; a caged eagle spreading its wings.