![]() ![]() Amid the revelation that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting the black community, we have watched as states make plans to reopen their economy and, so doing, ask that same community to sacrifice even more. It is taking place against a broad horizon of state violence, which among other things takes the form of utter disregard for the pain of black Americans. The anger and rage on display in Minneapolis is not only about police violence, however. This is where we are: a nation exhausted, slouching (perhaps) toward collapse. Last night, a CNN reporter was dragged off live television by police as he reported on the events, and Friday morning the president threatened on Twitter to send in the military to kill protesters. We don’t yet know if the United States is convulsing because it wishes to be something new and better, or is raging to remain something old and twisted.Ī city now burns as rage and anger match the gravity of Floyd’s death. ![]()
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