Erica Fretwell has just published an important and timely piece in Aljazeera entitled “From Lynchings to the Capitol: Racism and the Violence of Revelry."
Erica Fretwell has just published an important and timely piece in Aljazeera entitled “From Lynchings to the Capitol: Racism and the Violence of Revelry.” A snippet:
“The braiding of entertainment and violence that occurs when white people riot is the twisted line that leads from 19th-century lynching to the insurrection. Lynching photographs teach us that today’s images of the failed coup – on the one hand clownish, on the other terrifying – are not dissonant; in reality, they go hand-in-hand. Enjoyment is not a by-product but a central feature of white people’s violence towards Black people and, more broadly, Black political power.”
Access the article here.