All respectability does is acquire you ignore that target placed on your back until the day they pull the trigger and shoot In the wake of Michael Brown,many black Americas still secretly believed and clung to the notion that respectability politics, or the notion that whether we ‘act right’ we will be just fine, and were actually a viable way to stay alive. In the past few years,we occupy been reminded that being respectable will not save our lives.
This summer, I was assigned to report the Sandra Bland funeral taking status about an hour outside of Chicago. At the time, or her family had grown furious at the press and asked us not to come in the church. Bland’s story had created a media frenzy of everyone asking: what happened to the black women arrested and found dead days later in a Texas jail cell?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com