Excellent chat, guys. I didn't watch the Tyre Nichols funeral but it went down, apparently, as I expected - as you described it. It certainly points to how some civil rights activists just can't function if racism isn't involved, and if it's not there they have to find it (which they're very good at doing). What I noticed is that Black Lives Matter Memphis was remarkably quiet about it, at least on Twitter in the days after Nichols's death. I really wish they'd change their name to something less dishonest because it's *never* been about all black lives. I don't even care that they want to focus only on state killings, that's fine, but change your name to reflect that, don't pretend to care about all black lives when you ignore all the ones killed by blacks.
They can't ignore this one, so they sort of have to haphazardly find the racist angle. Well, white supremacy is their preferred bogeyman. (Is that racist? Should I call it boogerman? :)
When it happened, when I saw it was five black cops I thought, "Can we please finally acknowledge the problem isn't specifically 'white supremacy' or even white cops, but a militarized, brutal, ultraviolent police system?"
Excellent chat, guys. I didn't watch the Tyre Nichols funeral but it went down, apparently, as I expected - as you described it. It certainly points to how some civil rights activists just can't function if racism isn't involved, and if it's not there they have to find it (which they're very good at doing). What I noticed is that Black Lives Matter Memphis was remarkably quiet about it, at least on Twitter in the days after Nichols's death. I really wish they'd change their name to something less dishonest because it's *never* been about all black lives. I don't even care that they want to focus only on state killings, that's fine, but change your name to reflect that, don't pretend to care about all black lives when you ignore all the ones killed by blacks.
They can't ignore this one, so they sort of have to haphazardly find the racist angle. Well, white supremacy is their preferred bogeyman. (Is that racist? Should I call it boogerman? :)
When it happened, when I saw it was five black cops I thought, "Can we please finally acknowledge the problem isn't specifically 'white supremacy' or even white cops, but a militarized, brutal, ultraviolent police system?"
No, apparently.