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The Farce of July

July 7, 2020 Carma Henry 0

     This social malady is present in the jokes about nooses and the insistence of those who tell them. Forget that there have been thousands of lynching’s and that the racialized terror continues to traumatize communities of color. This buffoonery insists that it is not racist to joke, even when the jokes are about hate crimes. Some are inspired to mock the murder of George Floyd, posting photos of themselves kneeling on each other’s necks to mimic the murder of George Floyd, or to make jokes about not being able to breathe… […]

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Seattle’s cauldron of possibility

July 7, 2020 Carma Henry 0

Let’s consider the recent “takeover” of a six-block area in downtown Seattle known as Capitol Hill. The neighborhood was a focal point of the city’s protests and at one point in early June, in the midst of clashes between police and protesters, police abandoned the local precinct. Protesters then declared a small, cordoned-off area to be police-free. Initially known as CHAZ — the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone — it eventually became CHOP, for Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. And the area maintained a certain organized autonomy — complete with patrolling paramedics and sentinels, along with numerous participants with interesting agendas — for several weeks. […]