Sunday, May 23, 8-10pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom
Join the Revolutionary Socialist Network to discuss Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s article for The New Yorker, “We Should Still Defund the Police,” that had been published August 2020.
“Police brutality has been the single most important political rallying cry across Black communities for decades, because it is the most visceral evidence of the second-class citizenship of poor and working-class African-Americans. When the police can stop and question you, frisk and beat you, potentially arrest and occasionally murder you, then you are not an equal citizen. The consequences of Black encounters with the police and the broader criminal-justice system are life-altering and often life-shattering. Of course, the loss of a loved one from gun violence is also catastrophic, but it comes without one element that is specific to encounters with state violence: the abrogation of fundamental human and social rights.”
