#BlackLivesMatter
I haven't written a blog post in a while. And as much as I would like to update you all on the last couple of months of my first-year of grad school, that is just going to have to wait. Right now in American, Black men and women are dying. Police brutality is one of the leading causes of death in young men of color, and 1 in a 1000 Black men are likely to die as a result of a police encounter. All lives can't matter until Black lives matter. From the mutual foundation of slavery and freedom at the country's inception to the genocide of the Native population that made the "peculiar institution" possible to the racist promulgation of "manifest destiny" to the Chinese Exclusion Act to the codified subordinate status of Black people for a hundred years after slavery ended, they are all grim reminders of the millions of bodies upon which the audacious smugness of American hubris is built. Race and racism have not been exceptions; instead, they have been th
