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- David Theo GoldbergThe critics want to wipe clear the actual history of racial oppression that is baked into the social and economic structures of the US.
- Elizabeth Hinton, Derecka PurnellThe police as they exist today need to be abolished, there’s no question. “Diversity doesn’t change the fundamental dynamics of policing.”
- Dr. Gerald HorneMuch of what is called the “left” still insists that the American “revolution” of 1776 is “unfinished,” when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result.
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum EditorMost people contribute to injustice not as direct perpetrators but as indirect participants who enable, perpetuate, benefit from, and inherit histories of violence and contemporary systems of explo
- C. Riley SnortonThe inhabitation of the un-gender-specific and “fungible” also mapped the affective grounds for imagining other qualities of life and being for those marked by and for captivity.