The expectation and admiration for black people’s forgiveness “is about protecting whiteness, and America as a whole. “The parade of forgiveness is disconcerting to say the least,” she wrote. Unlike the older civil rights protesters, journalists on the ground in Ferguson reported that the activists were “hurling insults and curses” at police.Īfter relatives of the nine African Americans killed in Charleston, South Carolina, publicly said to the shooter, Dylann Roof, “I forgive you,” a Washington Post opinion piece by Stacey Patton responded with the headline “Black America Should Stop Forgiving White Racists.” At an October protest in Ferguson, street activists heckled and turned their backs on the president of the NAACP. This one, he said, would be much angrier.
“This ain’t your grandfather’s civil rights movement,” said rapper Tef Poe. After the 2014 deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City, a new movement for racial justice emerged, especially embodied by a new loose network called Black Lives Matter.
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