Amy Goodman
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"Looting" concerns distract from bureaucratic violence toward Black people
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June 6, 2020
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4:45Now PlayingProtesters in hundreds of cities across the U.S. are demanding justice for all Black lives and an end to police violence in predominantly peaceful demonstrations, contrary to framings of the actions as violent or marred by looting. The fears around looting and destruction of property distract from the outrage over "bureautic violence" on Black communities that's driving the protests, says Carol Anderson, a professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of "White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide." Anderson cites the parallels between Attorney General William Barr's inability to see injustice and Mitchell Palmer, U.S. attorney general in 1919, who discounted widespread anti-Black violence. "We focus so much on the flames that we miss the kindling. And the kindling is that bureaucratic violence that systematically destroys Black communities, that systematically erodes their citizenship," Anderson tells Democracy Now! "It's a false equivalence, that language of looting."
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