Aaliyah: Your account's overdrawn sculpture write opinion essay verge City Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), who has been at the forefront of the citywide debate over stop-and-frisk policing, sent what might have been one of the more provocative messages on twitter: “I took a nap and I woke up still just a colored, negro, n----- male in America, land of my birth."