Olympic Refusal: Simone Biles and Herbert Marcuse

An interesting take on Simone Biles’s exit from the Tokyo Olympics from Casey Gerald in the Guardian: America has always asked Black people to give everything we’ve got and then give what we don’t have. And if we did not give it, it was taken wilfully – plundered, as Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote. Biles’s courageous decision […]