Thursday, February 9, 2023

Yes, Black officers killed Tyre Nichols. What is the correct response to that?

Fifty-five years ago, Dr King went to Memphis because two Black garbage workers had been killed on the job by faulty equipment. He wasn't there simply because the workers were Black, nor was he there only to demand repair of the equipment that had killed them. King, who was in the midst of organizing the Poor People's Campaign, was in Memphis because working people were standing together to demand dignity under the slogan "I Am A Man". Until Black, white, Native and brown people unite to insist that our present economic reality is wrong and can be changed by policies that lift from the bottom so everyone rises, we cannot truly say that we have learned the lessons of our history or honored the life of one more soul who has died at the hands of law enforcement...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/07/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-black-police-officers


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