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We Have to Let White Supremacy Die in Order to Truly Live
Demonstrators march through Brooklyn, New York during a protest against the current administration on January 7, 2021, a day after pro-Trump mob stormed and trashed the Capitol.
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In a climate of white supremacist violence and blatant contempt for a robust democratic vision where distrust, deception and unabashed lying run thick in the halls of power Lindsay Graham and other Trump enablers are rubbing salt in the wound by calling on people to simply “move on.”
To truly move forward, however, we will need a form of accountability that is oriented toward social transformation, rather than “reconciliation” or “unity.” And those of us who are working to resist the poison of white supremacy will need to ground our actions in revolutionary love.