“If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years, but few have wanted to learn the steps. They have been, and remain today - even in the most anti-racist movements, like the prison abolition movement - invested elsewhere. This is not to say that all oppositional political desire today is pro-white, but it is usually anti-Black, meaning it will not dance with death.”
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“How I hate everything!”
― Summer
― Summer
“Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.”
― Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
― Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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