“I can’t breathe” was, to me, one of the most resonant Black Lives Matter chants. Tragically poignant, Eric Garner’s last words as he was killed after being placed in a chokehold by police represent both the immediate and metaphorical strangulation of black people. Fist raised high, I shouted it for years on the University of Virginia’s grounds and in Charlottesville as I protested various forms of systemic inequality, but I’d never really felt it before this weekend. black and green nmds It marked the first time students could openly discuss the perpetration of violence that has been whispered about in hallways for years, from theGraves Letterto the anonymous@rapedatspelman Twitter accountto the#SilenceIsViolencevigil. Now, thanks to the#WeKnowWhatYouDid black and green nmds I put it on immediately. Over the next hour and a half, the chemicals continued to rain down. There was still pain, but there was air, too. By noon, after over an hour of chemicals and smoking sticks being tossed, after multiple fights had broken out, after white nationalist demonstrators tried to break through a police line, law enforcement declared the gathering unlawful. Everyone was to leave the area, or face arrest. We left, passing national guardsmen and state troopers, to regroup first in Justice and then in McGuffey Park. black and green nmds We cannot simply out-hate white nationalists; they clearly cannot be shamed nor mocked into oblivion. Further, there are very real, very complicated, and very deeply embedded systemic issues that give rise to and sustain white supremacy and white supremacists. We need only look at our schools, our prisons, our news media, our neighborhoods to see them at play. But making those changes is the long game — it’s not accomplished through 10 hours of protest on a Saturday in August. black and green nmds
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