Quote of the Day

As for the rare folk who have destroyed property [in the anger that occasionally flares up in the streets], there is often the rebuttal: it makes no sense to destroy your own neighborhood.  But what does a neighborhood mean if a cop can come onto your street and -- in your case, dear sister Breonna (Taylor) -- into your home and kill you?  If you don't own your own body, what, in the end, do you really own?  Those flames seem unwarranted to many white brothers and sisters.  But when they decry Black self-destruction, they often ignore the systemic white destruction of Black life and neighborhoods.

-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 133