Lil Summin'

storyofliberation:

UC Davis and Racialized Politics of Sentimentality 

“Why is it that it takes police violence against seemingly ‘peaceful’ and ‘non-threatening’ white students and faculty at a predominantly white campus for the mainstream to suddenly wake up to the police and state-sanctioned that us brown, black, red and/or muslim folk have been trying to get mainstream america to give a crap about for decades.

“…I think what happened at UC Davis, which is my school, needs to be part of a larger conversation about how the machinery of whiteness (as phrased by Steve Martinot who is a critical race scholar) still plays out.

“…and can we please have a conversation about how white bodies, white campuses, white middle class spaces are almost always constructed more as ‘innocent and non-threatening’ than non-white racialized people who are collectively seen as threatening, even if they are peaceful.”

Watch. This.