Reread Ida B. Wells' classic `Lynch Law in America'. Her arguments often revolve around importance of the rule of law in a decent society. I think this a more secure foundation for modern anti-police-violence campaigns than folk realise; worth studying. http://www.blackpast.org/1900-ida-b-wells-lynch-law-america …
That said, I had forgot since last reading how dickish the piece is w/r/t native Americans and Polynesians. Reminds me of Anna Julia Cooper and the younger Du Bois. 19th/early 20th century Af Am intellegentsia seem to have very often drunk the kool aid on this front.
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Actually to be clear: Anna Julia Cooper sometimes expressed solidarity with native Americans, so credit where due. But read her discussing Irish, southern Europeans and, I seem to recall but am less confident, continental Africans - and that's what I am reminded of here.
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