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There remains a persistent widespread attempt to render the movement in Baltimore into something morally digestible for white audiences
That is, to translate it into something that can be articulated in white terms (or else condemn it)
(I'm using "white" here as both as a marker of white supremacy and a placeholder for a putatively "universal" or "neutral" perspective)
This is the case whether the perspective is a liberal one ("we need to invest in communities!") a Marxist one ("the workers have risen!")
Or indeed an anarchist one ("smash the state!") and/ or a post-political one ("a movement without demands!")
The worry is that in these acts of appropriation, the specificity of anti-black oppression and the resistance to that oppression is obscured
I get the desire to do this, in a context where Baltimore is dismissed as "violent" and Gray's death swept aside cos of "criminality"
But let's not forget that these terms - "non-violence" and "innocence" - are set and defined by whiteness
Like what does it mean to publish Freddie Gray's rap sheet? Is it something to disavow? Or does it actually tell us something important?
Specifically what does it tell us about a state that classifies 1/3 of black males inhabitants as "criminal"?




my mates a lecturer at sussex uni, tweeted this

dansci wrote:It's a societal problem that can only be solved by the people in the ghetto.

No chance in hell. It would only ever be solved from the outside. The outside has ignored these communities since forever and this is the result

mason666 wrote:

ehbes wrote:tired of seeing stuffy white people cover this like they understand the struggle of minorities. I get so enraged when they say shit like "They should just peacefully demonstrate like MLK"

Looòooooooooooooooool and you do understand the struggle?

did I ever say I did? no, and nor do I claim to. Read what I actually say and not that you want me to say

ehbes wrote:

mason666 wrote:

ehbes wrote:tired of seeing stuffy white people cover this like they understand the struggle of minorities. I get so enraged when they say shit like "They should just peacefully demonstrate like MLK"

Looòooooooooooooooool and you do understand the struggle?

did I ever say I did? no, and nor do I claim to. Read what I actually say and not that you want me to say

Someone's triggered...

yeah, im part of the itchy trigga finga niqqa's.

OGLemon wrote:For a social revolution to be successful it must be global and popular.

found the Trot!

lol yh but your speaking as if you understand their struggle, in fact most of the posts in this thread are people 'understanding the struggle' from their throne of white middle class land

No one is say they understand their struggle, the post in this thread are looking at the causes and the systemic issues.

my point exactly

So in your mind I have to be a poor black person before I can look at the causes and effects? That makes absolutely 0 sense

yep

u made the point in the first place

You are functionally retarded

By that logic, you should have to be a poor immigrant to Britain before you can vote to kick yourself out

ehbes wrote:So in your mind I have to be a poor black person before I can look at the causes and effects?

mason666 wrote:yep

What the shitting fuck

ehbes wrote:You are functionally retarded

at least im not poor and in baltimore

the answer is guns imho. give people a proper chance to defend themselves

It's funny how the right to bear arms only applies to white people who like to hunt.

ultraspatial wrote:the answer is guns imho. give people a proper chance to defend themselves

yes, great idea, lets stop the systematic murder of unarmed black men by giving police yet another justification to shoot

so are we gonna have riots every 5-6 months now or what