I hadn’t heard of this until today. A coworker I hadn’t seen in a while shared this with me. This just after telling me that she’d lost five relatives to Covid-19 in the last two months. My coworker is African American and most of those relatives lived in Detroit.
We didn’t have the time to get into much of what happened to George Floyd either.
Goddamn it. Get it together and start acting human everyone.
Seriously, this is something that no one of us can fix, but all of us must.
The way her language was coded to threaten the birdwatcher makes my blood boil. You can tell she knows about police violence, about the anxiety lots of black men have when dealing with the police, about unjust killings and the type of policing that killed George Floyd...And she uses it as a tool to bat away this innocent man who's done nothing wrong. It's such a concrete and vicious threat, and it infuriates me.
All this as she chokes her dog for some reason. What a trash person.
Jelani Cobb's take, which I think is worth reading.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-death-of-george-floyd-in-context
Depends. If becoming a minority is enough to level the paying field, that would be great. However, I suspect based on, well a lot of history, that "we" will do whatever is necessary to make sure that we still wield majority powers. That I do not look forward to, since we've seen that trailer enough times already ("Jews will not replace us" and the like).
South Africa exists in a world with centralized diffusion of media. I don't think it stands a chance when the overwhelming majority of people under 30 don't read newspapers, don't watch television, don't listen to the radio but have logins on at least three social media platforms. I mean yeah, obviously - rich gonna keep right on richin' but entrenched power structures aren't impervious to floods.