Most don't realize that white supremacists even invented a mental illness -- "drapetomania" -- to pathologize blacks' desire to flee slavery
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The US government has always framed black people who do not wish to be enslaved, tortured, discriminated or killed as "identity extremists".
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The genius of
#BlackLivesMatter
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In a white supremacist nation, black people are supposed to happily comply with their exploitation, dispossession and death.
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In a white supremacist nation, simply insisting that "black people deserve to live" is, itself a crime of the highest order.
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For white supremacists, blacks who do not want to be subject to systemic discrimination and state violence are "identity extremists".
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The only proper identity for a black person in a white supremacist society is "non-threatening compliance". Which is of course why Obama won
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White supremacists can tolerate partial recognition of "racism", but not a radical challenge to the racial order.
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Insisting that people labeled "black" deserve the breath in our bodies, deserve freedom -- this is a "radical" challenge to the racial order
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Insisting that black lives matter can only be viewed as "extreme" in a society proudly built on extreme, radical destruction of black life.
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