The night before the 101st birthday of Malcolm X, the night before the 105th birthday of Yuri Kochiyama, as I go to a reading group at the Jewish Cultural Center of Harlem to discuss the song âStrange Fruit,â I get the news. Another mass shooting. More dead Muslims. Portrait Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New by libraryofcongress...
A child screams in the back while a father desperately tries to prevent the police from brutalizing his family. But they threw rocks.
White supremacy is so systemic it's even baked into the words we use to describe it such that it doesn't put the onus on the white supremacist.