Friend,

YOU did this. All of you who got in the streets, who demanded #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and STAYED in the streets declaring #BlackLivesMatter.

Matthew Rozsa: The Parallels Between Trump’s “Big Lie” and Hitler’s

Sam Goldman interviews Matthew Rozsa (@MatthewRozsa) about his recent article for Salon.com: Trump’s Big Lie and Hitler’s: Is this how America’s slide into totalitarianism begins? which reads in part: “The Germans who ‘believed’ in Hitler’s Big Lie did so not because he had any proof that Germany had been stabbed in the back, but because they hated Jews, hated leftists and wanted to restore the German Empire to its pre-World War I glory. The Republicans who ‘believe’ in Trump’s Big Lie do so not because there is any logical argument that Biden stole the election, but because they don’t want to admit that a majority of Americans do not support their policies. In order to stay in power, they need to disenfranchise racial minorities, low-income voters and anyone else who might be inclined not to support Republican politicians.”

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Thoughts from Sam Goldman, recorded before Derek Chauvin was convicted, on the enduring & embedded legacy of white supremacy:

As documented by the website mappingpoliceviolence.org, the rate of police murder in the US has not decreased in 2021. In fact, there have only been three days in 2021 where the police did not kill someone. While there are uneven rates of unjust violence, depending on the jurisdiction, what remains true year after year, is the percentage of Black people murdered by police completely outpaces other ethnic groups. Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. If this was another country, people would be demanding the UN step in and disarm the US police before they killed again.

The latest video being this horrible video of a 13 year old child in Chicago, Adam Toledo, shot with his hands up. Now is a time for pure rage, because it didn’t matter that he was a child. Because it didn’t matter that his hands were up because there are too many mothers mourning their stolen sons, because I believe you can’t reform a system that sends its enforcers to chase down and kill children. And this is why I think one of the many reasons why I think you need a revolution, nothing less. It’s right that people call out the lie of compliance and injustice between the way Black folks are routinely treated by the police and the way that deadly white mob was treated when clearly not complying as they stormed the Capitol. As writer Jeff Sharlet pointed out on Twitter: “Remember, flashbangs were not allowed to be used against the white supremacist mob of 9000 that attempted to overthrow the US Congress, but for people protesting police executions of civilians”

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