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How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

Aviva Chomsky Wrote:If we truly want to challenge racism, oppression, and inequality, we should turn our attention away from the few hundred marchers in Charlottesville and towards the real sources and enforcers of our unjust global order.  They are not hard to find.
Great article about a black journalist who shielded a right-wing protester who was being beaten with his own body.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/546831794/...-protester


Interview highlights


On why he protected this man
What came to me was that he was a human being, and I didn't want to see anybody die. And, you know, I've been thinking a lot about the events in Charlottesville, and I remember seeing the pictures of a young man being brutally beaten by these guys with poles, and when I saw that I thought, "why didn't anybody step in?"
And you know, in retrospect, it doesn't matter if he doesn't see my humanity, what matters to me is that I see his. What he thinks about me and all of that, like — my humanity is not dependent upon that.

love to all
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