1. Pelosi's words are being dismissed as a gaffe, a sign of verbally ineptness or lack of thought. But there's something more interesting and important at work about not understanding what Black Lives Matter means.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1384624338683502592 …
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5. Pelosi's attempt at a false consolation point to a fissure between the Democratic leadership and the social movements that continue to press for change. More thoughts on this (and other things) here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/how-not-to-mourn-george-floyd …
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Or put it another way: when the late John Lewis stepped onto the bridge at Selma, he knew he could have been injured or killed. George Floyd had no such expectation when he was going about his everyday life on the day he died.
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I hear what you're saying but I'm so struck by the way Mr. Floyd behaved while he was dying. It was gracious. I know that's weird and absurd but it was unique in that it really-well dispelled the myth that black men are dangerous and it was caught on tape. Maybe? He was a hero.
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A lot of words about someone inartfully saying “he didn’t die in vain.”
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Folks just want to go about their lives without being turned into martyrs
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Ellison said something similar in his speech and from what I am aware wasn’t criticized. I think because he said it better.
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I'm guessing she is referring to H.R.7120 — Justice in Policing Act of 2020 and that it was because of the horror he was put through that pushed legislators to draft a bill addressing issues surrounding it. Maybe that's just my perception...
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Human beings are meaning making machines. AND, yeah..."making a purchase at a convenience store" is so different from "making an eyes-open commitment to a cause, aware of the risks."
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Bingo! Well observed.
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And one could argue that it is precisely elevating the violent killing of an “ordinary person” to an understanding of sacrificial violence, extends the brutality of that violence to all (Black) lives, themselves as embodiments of a certain transcendence = humanity.
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