In the Moment: Confederate Relics and Racist Tropes and the Necessity of Context To History
The past month has certainly been a tumultuous one for the United States, as civil unrest continues to boil over nationwide about police brutality and systemic racism in the justice system. Please take note that I didn't refer to the unrest as being about "the death of George Floyd," a characterization I'm seeing all too often in reports about the topic. Something that I intend to take very seriously in my writings on here is the proper contextualization of current events, and it is extremely important to understand that protests did not spill into the streets of all 50 states and multiple countries around the world because ONE police officer killed ONE man. There is a bad faith element in commentaries on this historic moment to reduce it to that, because that element has a vested interest in discrediting this movement by attempting to make a pain and rage that spans generations into an overreaction to a specific, isolated event. No, these protests are not about Geo...