Benjamin Britton’s Reviews > From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation > Status Update
Benjamin Britton
is 66% done
“The gravity of the crisis confronting Black communities, often stemming from these harmful encounters with the police, legitimizes the need for a more encompassing analysis. It allows people to generalize from police violence to the ways that public funding for police comes at the expense of other public institutions, and creates the space to then ask why.”
— Aug 15, 2019 06:20PM
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Benjamin Britton
is 99% done
“Historically, the insistence that Black deprivation is rooted in Black culture and in Black people has deflected attention away from the systemic roots of racism, compelling African Americans to look inward instead of making demands on the state and others.”
— Aug 19, 2019 01:32PM
Benjamin Britton
is 78% done
“Sanders is reluctant and almost uncomfortable discussing the specific ways that racism adds another burden onto the existing oppression Black workers and the poor face.”
— Aug 18, 2019 08:55PM
Benjamin Britton
is 74% done
“The Black Lives Matter movement, from Ferguson to today, has created a feeling of pride and combativeness among a generation that this country has tried to kill, imprison, and simply disappear.”
— Aug 18, 2019 02:09PM
Benjamin Britton
is 63% done
“In one fell swoop, Sharpton not only condemned the young people of Ferguson but invoked stereotypes to do so. It confirmed a sense among the new activists that Sharpton and those like him were out of step.”
— Aug 15, 2019 04:56PM
Benjamin Britton
is 60% done
“Garza described #BlackLivesMatter as “an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.”
— Aug 14, 2019 07:46PM
Benjamin Britton
is 54% done
“The police function primarily as agents of social control in a society that is fundamentally unequal, which means that they largely operate in poor and working-class communities.”
— Aug 13, 2019 06:10PM
Benjamin Britton
is 45% done
“In some Southern states, convict leasing was critical to the economy. In 1898 almost 73 percent of total revenue in Alabama was derived from convict leasing in coal mines.”
— Aug 11, 2019 01:56PM
Benjamin Britton
is 43% done
“Complaining about sagging pants or characterizing low-income Black people as “thugs and criminals” during an uprising legitimizes the racialization and criminalization of Black people. It explains the hardships of African Americans in such a way as to rationalize the poor conditions and lack of resources that pervade working-class communities of color.”
— Aug 10, 2019 06:05AM
Benjamin Britton
is 31% done
“Most importantly, removing race and, ultimately, culpability for the conditions of the cities, meant there was no explanation for those conditions beyond the people living there. If culture was the issue, what was needed was personal transformation, not a robust public sector.
— Aug 05, 2019 12:47PM
Benjamin Britton
is 22% done
“The intractability of Black conditions becomes seen as natural as opposed to standing as an indictment of the system itself, while the hard times befalling ordinary whites are rendered almost invisible. For example, the majority of poor people in the United States are white, but the public face of American poverty is Black.”
— Aug 04, 2019 11:51AM
