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A constant point of dissonance on here - insisting that Black ppl aren't a monolith and then speaking definitely about the behaviors of the same race of ppl.
This is the same problem that applies to dialogue happening around the Crime Bill.
This is the same problem that applies to dialogue happening around the Crime Bill.
It's a habit we need to break. There's no one narrative of that time, and there *was* a significant opposition movement. All of that should be contextualized. History requires us to reconcile inconvenient truths, but they shouldn't be massaged or moralized to be palatable.
And honestly, when it comes to things like the Crime Bill, or Stop and Frisk/Broken Windows Policing, and Gentrification, a lot of local community leaders were complicit. That's a fact and it wasn't just because of how bad it was outside. Many of them are like that today.
They were like that because their inherent classism and antiblackness was used against them, duped into believing they were protecting their own by abandoning the most imperiled amongst us. And that's just a harsh reality.
You can see it when they prop up movies like 13th and still have demands on the "responsible" ways to execute civil unrest; or how we have redefined defunding the police to reforming. Acknowledging the harm of the 94 Bill while still continuing with the same tactics as before.
Many of that old guard still relish being the threshold to cross to access the political class. It's not about constructing a new framework for them. That's not radical change.
So I wish we would stop with this discussion. We know the argument and it's tired. Let's move forward.
So I wish we would stop with this discussion. We know the argument and it's tired. Let's move forward.
