jueves, 17 de agosto de 2017

Thwarting a “United Right” in Charlottesville | Sarah Jaffe

Thwarting a “United Right” in Charlottesville | Sarah Jaffe

 TomDispatch


Sarah Jaffe interviews Lisa Woolfork of Charlottesville Black Lives Matter.
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"Our goal was to help pull the community to respond to the larger, more capacious
threat of the “alt-right” and the white supremacists, neo-Nazis,
nationalists were representing and threatening to bring forward. I think
we were able to do that. We were able to bring together a variety of
people, and several groups issued individual calls. The clergy, for
example, had a really wonderful one calling on, in particular, white
people of faith, white ministers, white clergy to come and join in
taking a stand against not just explicit violent racism but also the
subtle institutional racism that their own institutions had created and
cultivated over time. It was I think a really powerful soul searching on
the part of the clergy, for example.


"Charlottesville BLM also issued a call where we invited people who
wanted to come and stand with us and to challenge white supremacy, as
well as some of the other issues that we are dealing with in our cities,
which include things like the disproportionate nature of stop and frisk
in Charlottesville where African Americans constitute about eighty
percent of the stops and frisks even though we comprise less than
nineteen percent of the community. It is not just the statues, but we
can see a very clear connection between symbolic racism and
institutional racism."

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A stream of racists flows, unknowingly, under a banner of diversity / Photo courtesy Jill Harms