I’ve been seeing this radicalization among a lot of younger bipoc friends of mine, and the rhetoric is so clearly having a negative impact on their well-being. It’s important to acknowledge that black people are disproportionately surveilled and incarcerated for petty crimes - many imprisoned people are locked up for bogus reasons - but that is a very very different reality than what chattel slavery was and conflating the two does nothing to improve anything
I’ve been seeing this radicalization among a lot of younger bipoc friends of mine, and the rhetoric is so clearly having a negative impact on their well-being. It’s important to acknowledge that black people are disproportionately surveilled and incarcerated for petty crimes - many imprisoned people are locked up for bogus reasons - but that is a very very different reality than what chattel slavery was and conflating the two does nothing to improve anything