Monday, September 07, 2020

What do you call it when you don’t have to care?

“... I would ask whites what they would have us do to secure their tepid and revocable support for the notion that we shouldn’t be gunned down by the police. Not get shot in the back by the cops? Yeah, we’ve tried that. Not get pissed off when we get shot in the back? When that happens, y’all just let our murderers go back to the work of murdering us. Protest, but don’t be civilly disobedient when we do? We do that, and those protests are never covered. The only time the media shows our daytime protests is when Bill Barr gasses them so the president can take a photo-op. 

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“There is no way to protest white supremacy in a way that will meet the approval of white supremacists.”


— Elie Mystal . The Inevitable Whitelash Against Racial Justice Has Started . The Nation . AUGUST 31, 2020

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