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Yet, from Floyd’s murder has sprung a competing, diametrically opposed mobilization. In response to the challenge to understand + address the matrix of oppressive conditions that led to Floyd’s death, a backlash that seeks to squash anti-racist discourse has taken hold (2/)

This censoring of anti-racist frameworks — structural racism, intersectionality, critical race theory, and implicit bias — is a coordinated right-wing response to the racial reckoning currently underway. (4/)

To continue to mobilize anti-racist constituencies, we have to see this backlash for what it is: an effort to weaponize the Floyd reckoning to gin up the right-wing base, and to ensure that racial justice remains a divisive issue for future generations. (5/)

We have no choice but to resist — to keep our eyes on the prize of racial equality as well as on the obstacles that are designed to disrupt our momentum. (7/)

After all, we at AAPF realize that the battle for racial justice is a battle over the material conditions of our lives as well as our capacity to name them. We know that to fight for justice, we have to be able to name injustice. (8/)