The Mayor of Minneapolis just had to hold back tears at a press conference taking place the day after his cops violently attacked Black folks and allies like they were enemy combatants for protesting a murder by the cops

This is white liberalism, friends. That's it.

RADICAL LOVE? IS TEAR GAS RADICAL LOVE, JACOB?

These folks out here acting like this murder was policing gone wrong and not policing gone the way it always has in this country

This isn't cancer. It's not a disease we don't have a cure for.

It's racism. We know its causes, and we have plenty of solutions that a lot of folks refuse to try.

Government actors murdering people is what destroys a civic fabric

"Now that we're done talking about the violent murder, let's admonish people for much more minor 'crimes' and pretend that it's the protestors who are a danger to the community" -- the police chief, in sum

A Black police chief is a police chief and a shield for the state

Now: do I choose to listen to a zoom chat of administrative fantasy bullshit about how we can safely reopen campus or keep listening to this dude lie about Black reality

what an amazing time to be a Black professor, esp since 50 years ago, I probs couldn't have been one