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To focus on white supremacy is not to neglect structure. It is to highlight how central it is to the hierarchy of power in US society. The task of political struggle is to bind the individual act to structural change without neglecting either part.
We get nowhere by telling the thousands clamoring for police to be held responsible that they should point their anger elsewhere or by reminding them — a la AllLivesMatter — that the police kill white people too. In fact, in this situation a focus on the individual is more effective than it might seem.
American policing requires impunity, especially when it comes to murdering black people. Every individual case is an opportunity to set a crucial precedent, and this is why police unions are so intransigent and desperate to prevent any accountability and any oversight. Organizing around individual cases has provided a catalyst to mobilize masses of people and knit movements together into an increasingly unified movement against police brutality.
What would this movement look like without the rallying cries provided by the seemingly endless litany of names? So tell us Barbara and Karen Fields: Breaking Bank Issue The Health of Nations Issue The First Red Century Issue By Taking Power Issue Journey to the Dark Side Issue The Party We Need Issue Rank and File Issue Between the Risings Issue Up From Liberalism Issue Uneven and Combined Issue Struggle and Progress Issue Ours to Master Issue Want to Read Currently Reading Read.
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Return to Book Page. For the Color of His Skin: The racial murder of a young boy in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, made headlines from Manhattan to Hong Kong. With the trials that ensued, New York City exploded with angry protests from black activists and the friends and neighbors of the white youths accused of the crime.
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