http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28101/
Cornell area Black Lives Matter rally: US engaged in ‘genocide’ against blacks, capitalism must go
The protest’s focus was the “inherent injustices embedded in America’s political and cultural institutions,” maintained by “white supremacy.”
“One of the gifts of Black Lives Matter nationally has been to revive our awareness of structures of oppression in our society,” said Cornell graduate Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, a local Black Lives Matter organizer.
“We must also understand our personal relationships to those structures and recognize that those structures affect different people differently. We are all oppressed under white supremacy.”
Professor Russell Rickford, who “specializes in the black radical tradition,” added that capitalism is the culprit, too: Getting rid of it, he says, “is imperative to creating a new system that values human life and needs.”
“We must bring this system down, and don’t for a second think that this is not possible,” Ade said.
How pervasive is this line of thinking in the blacklivesmatter movement?
Cornell area Black Lives Matter rally: US engaged in ‘genocide’ against blacks, capitalism must go
The protest’s focus was the “inherent injustices embedded in America’s political and cultural institutions,” maintained by “white supremacy.”
“One of the gifts of Black Lives Matter nationally has been to revive our awareness of structures of oppression in our society,” said Cornell graduate Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, a local Black Lives Matter organizer.
“We must also understand our personal relationships to those structures and recognize that those structures affect different people differently. We are all oppressed under white supremacy.”
Professor Russell Rickford, who “specializes in the black radical tradition,” added that capitalism is the culprit, too: Getting rid of it, he says, “is imperative to creating a new system that values human life and needs.”
“We must bring this system down, and don’t for a second think that this is not possible,” Ade said.
How pervasive is this line of thinking in the blacklivesmatter movement?
