Black Americans are residents of a settler colony, not truly citizens of the United States. Despite a constitution laden with European Enlightenment values and a document of independence declaring certain inalienable rights, Black existence was legally that of private property until postbellum emancipation. The Black American condition today is an evolved condition directly connected to this history of slavery, and that will continue to be the case as long as the United States remains as an ongoing settler project. Nothing short of a complete dismantling of the American state as it presently exists can or will disrupt this.
Co-written with William C. Anderson and Mariame Kaba. As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. Chico, California: AK Press. June 5, 2018. ISBN 9781849353168.
We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.
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