"None of this is all that surprising, however. White people blaming Black people for the horrors white people inflict upon Black people is as American as apple pie. They blamed the slave who ran away for forcing the master to whip him. They blamed the Black people agitating for freedom for causing the Civil War. They blamed the Freedom Riders trying to register Black people to vote for getting themselves killed. Now, Black people are being blamed as being too violent to police our own communities, and too strident to build a coalition with “moderate” whites who would totally be on our side if we weren’t all arsonists who wanted to eat white people, or something....
"If you thought Floyd’s murder was going to lead to structural change, then you don’t know white people as well as I do."
Elie Mystal, "The Inevitable Whitelash Against Racial Justice Has Started"
thenation.com
8/31/2020
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