Rioting is not about solutions. It is about stepping up in a crisis, to defend one’s neighbours when an emergency calls for immediate and forceful action. Rioters are the “first responders” who rush to the scene when the state declares openly, shamelessly, that it endorses the murder of unarmed young Black men. The efforts of the rioters are not “futile,” much less “senseless.” On the contrary, the rioting in Ferguson and beyond is an indicator of an important civic virtue: the willingness to rush to the aid of one’s neighbours, in spite of real personal risks, because both the safety and the dignity of one’s community is under attack and stands in need of insistent and uncompromising defenders. ~ Steve DArcy
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 01:44:23 +0000
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