Can't wait to spend an evening at the University of Tennessee Knoxville talking with Tyler Wall + David Kline about my book, hosted by UTK's amazing Appalachian Justice Research Center + Justice Studies Program as well as the dear fam at the Highlander Center for Research & Education.
I can remember last fall when Israel cast doubt on the claim that it had bombed a school, a hospital, and so on. Hundreds of bombings of schools and hospitals and refugees, and a year later, it continues unabated. Normalized to no end. Deep deep sickness. Mass elimination in real time.
In āWhite Property, Black Trespassā @andrewkrinks.bsky.social writes āif we only see in prisons, jails, and police politically neutral mechanisms for facilitating ājusticeā in response to individual instances of law-breaking, then we miss how they help fulfill a much larger, mythological
I spoke with the legendary Dr. Gerald Horne about my book āWhite Property, Black Trespassā for his radio show āFreedom Now." We discussed why I wrote it, what I mean by "racial capitalism," the role of religion in mass criminalization, the pseudo-sacred power of whiteness + more. An enormous honor!
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I want Marcellus Williams to keep on living past this evening. And I hope the fact that millions of other people share that desire is a sign that this system will not last.
In the carceral (and colonial racial capitalist) imagination, cosmic + social order demand sacrifice, which means the stateāGodās hangmenācan only ever be innocent: it is just doing its job. If we value lifeāinnocent or guilty of any harmāthis social order + its prisons must end.