“No justice, no peace.”
Surely we have all heard that chant for decades at various protests ... well,
all but the most cloistered in their white privilege. One can debate about the
justification for violence in the wake of still another police murder of an
African American man, this time George Floyd. But there is, in the final
analysis, one major reason to go home and shut down the rioting: the sheer
numbers and arsenal that the power structure can rely on for brute force.
A case against violence
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