Freddie Gray in Context: a Century of White Supremacy in Baltimore
April 30, 2015 § 1 Comment
During the recent unrest in Baltimore, many people have discussed riots and expressed considerations for property. So, let’s talk about property, housing and homes specifically. Let’s talk about Baltimore. The ghetto does not exist in a vacuum, just like plantations or colonies didn’t invent themselves. In fact, they arise from policies of exploitation, extraction, exclusion. I’ll quote several articles depicting a century of white supremacy in Baltimore, 1910-2010, along the lens of real estate, as well as my analysis.
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Whatever It May Take: On the Police Murder of Eric Garner [Winter 2014]
March 12, 2015 § Leave a comment
Please, please learn about the police murder of Eric Garner, do not shut your heart to the painful truths of this world. « Read the rest of this entry »
UC Davis Pepperspray Assault Revisited [Fall 2014]
March 12, 2015 § 1 Comment
November 18th marks 3 years since the UC Davis pepper-spray incident at Occupy. I still remember the students for their civil disobedience. I still remember the chemical burns in eyes and throats from military-grade pepper spray, used at point-blank range. The heartlessness of cops and administrators. The courage of my friends in the thick of it—victors who expelled the police—and the new friendships born after. « Read the rest of this entry »
Ferguson Uprising [Winter 2014]
March 12, 2015 § Leave a comment
If you fear these desperate folks wearing hoodies and masks, who feel they have no future, who burn or loot businesses and police stations they perceive as instruments of racism, you should hear about the big dogs. These smug politicians wearing suits and ties, who think they own the future, who burn and loot entire nations they perceive as chessboards, whose names many of y’all still have bumper sticker’d to your car. « Read the rest of this entry »
The Light That Pierces The Gloom [Winter 2014]
March 12, 2015 § Leave a comment
A night infected with anger
Rising, blazing, then
Swirling, subsiding
Calm once more
Clarity
Let us not call this
A return to peace
Do not forget: indignation
Do not forget: dignity
Do not forget: the shadows of the past
Or that which still casts this dark
Be the light that pierces the gloom
The torch that feeds the conflagration
Fanning the flames
Til the ashes of the old order
Feed the soil of the future
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