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BAD NEWS: it will not be the same forever

“If Black lives don’t matter, and if nations of the Black Diaspora are foundationally dependent on the degradation of Blacks, then what is there to do? If multiracial protests against Black death ask the state and society to eliminate what is constitutive, and therefore impossible to eliminate, then it may be time for a shift. What if we took seriously the accusations of anti-Black genocide that activists in Brazil and the United States have been formulating since at least the 1950s? It may be time to consider that the Black experience is so unique, fundamental, and perhaps untranslatable that a Black agenda, formulated by Blacks and for Blacks, should be the basis of political organizing, rather than one among other agendas in a multiracial bloc. It may be time to leave aside the attempts at reform and calibration and to consider theoretical and political alternatives that engage frontally the anti-Black constitution of our social world.”