”Though the white liberal imagination likes to feel temporarily bad about black suffering, there really is no mode of empathy that can replicate the daily strain of knowing that as a black person you can be killed for simply being black: no hands in your pockets, no playing music, no sudden movements, no driving your car, no walking at night, no walking in the day, no turning onto this street, no entering this building, no standing your ground, no standing here, no standing there, no talking back, no playing with toy guns, no living while black.”
Citerat ur ”The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning” av Claudia Rankine i The New York Times, 22 juni 2015. Rankine blandar ursinne och skarp analys i denna text om våldet mot svarta och den osynliga ambivalenta vardagsrasismen. De nio dödade i Charleston nämns i ingressen, men det här är en lång och välskriven text, som både i text och bild även riktar blicken bakåt i historien.
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