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What is urgently needed in the US right now is transitional justice.
A thread on why.
I am NOT going to say what transitional justice should look like in the US. This is a national conversation for Black Americans to lead. What all should advocate for right now is having it.
A thread on why.
I am NOT going to say what transitional justice should look like in the US. This is a national conversation for Black Americans to lead. What all should advocate for right now is having it.
2. Transitional justice is about dealing with wrongdoing as part of a broader effort at relational transformation.
@SenKamalaHarris is advocating for transitional justice here: https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1266159428547592192?s=20">https://twitter.com/SenKamala...
@SenKamalaHarris is advocating for transitional justice here: https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1266159428547592192?s=20">https://twitter.com/SenKamala...
3. There are a wide range of processes used to deal with past wrongs and facilitate broader change:
criminal trials, institutional reform (incl. police reform), reparations, truth commissions, memorials, art, educational reform. This is an incomplete list.
criminal trials, institutional reform (incl. police reform), reparations, truth commissions, memorials, art, educational reform. This is an incomplete list.
4. The need specifically for transitional justice *and the concrete possibility of pursuing it* arise when four conditions are in place (I wrote a book on this).
All four conditions are vividly present in the US.
All four conditions are vividly present in the US.
5. Condition 1: pervasive structural inequality
(inequality in opportunities to be educated, healthy, participate politically & to shape institutional rules for conduct)
@JWhitePubRadio is describing inequality along racial lines in the US in this thread: https://twitter.com/JWhitePubRadio/status/1267090670050779138?s=20">https://twitter.com/JWhitePub...
(inequality in opportunities to be educated, healthy, participate politically & to shape institutional rules for conduct)
@JWhitePubRadio is describing inequality along racial lines in the US in this thread: https://twitter.com/JWhitePubRadio/status/1267090670050779138?s=20">https://twitter.com/JWhitePub...
6. Condition 2: normalized collective & political wrongdoing
(rights violations become a basic fact of life for targeted groups of citizens)
@ericabuddington is describing normalized wrongdoing against Black Americans in the US in this thread: https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/1266531249914601472?s=20">https://twitter.com/ericabudd...
(rights violations become a basic fact of life for targeted groups of citizens)
@ericabuddington is describing normalized wrongdoing against Black Americans in the US in this thread: https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/1266531249914601472?s=20">https://twitter.com/ericabudd...
7. More on normalized collective & political wrongdoing
See @KeishaBlain& #39;s piece https://twitter.com/KeishaBlain/status/1266677307726614528?s=20">https://twitter.com/KeishaBla...
See @KeishaBlain& #39;s piece https://twitter.com/KeishaBlain/status/1266677307726614528?s=20">https://twitter.com/KeishaBla...
8. Condition 3: Serious existential uncertainty
(Periods where the status quo is called into question & it is no longer clear where a comm is heading)
@MRogers097 "What opens—what is beginning right now in this country—is a profoundly unsettled space." https://twitter.com/MRogers097/status/1266717785645858817?s=20">https://twitter.com/MRogers09...
(Periods where the status quo is called into question & it is no longer clear where a comm is heading)
@MRogers097 "What opens—what is beginning right now in this country—is a profoundly unsettled space." https://twitter.com/MRogers097/status/1266717785645858817?s=20">https://twitter.com/MRogers09...
