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“We must out-organize the forces organized against antiracism”
August 4, 2021 Twitter Facebook
The year since the murder of George Floyd has been described as a “racial reckoning.” But the “racial reckoning” appears to have become a racist relapse. Forces organized against antiracism are striking back. Basic freedoms are being undermined, racist violence is rising, and propaganda machines are running full steam ahead.
We are seeing a predictable backlash to the George Floyd protests. But it also represents the latest phase of a cycle of white reaction that reaches back to the election of President Barack Obama. Things only escalated during the Trump regime and, since its defeat, climaxed with the January 6 Capitol attack, which did not end, so much as adapt.