what does this mean?
Our rights as citizens in this nation are being challenged. We, as people of color and poverty, are seen as less than human. Law enforcement have taken the law into their own hands... LITERALLY!
Dr. Brittany Cooper writes "...a conversation emerged about whether the uprising in Ferguson constitutes a moment or a movement...Movements take a long time to build and are generally an accumulation of critical moments. The Greensboro sit-ins of 1960 were part of a longer trajectory of college students practicing the "stool-sitting" technique begun in the early 1940's by college students at Howard University and other historically black colleges. The 1963 March on Washington was the culmination of a 22-year March on Washington Movement that began in 1941 when A. Philip Randolph threatened to march on Washington as a tactic to force desegregation of federal employment agencies.
Movements rarely appear to be movements in the midst of them. ...We should, I think, not miss the moment trying to theorize the movement. We have to leave certain conversations to history.
Yet, having spent time in Ferguson... marching, standing in community over the site where Mike Brown's body lay unceremoniously uncovered for four hours, and organizing with activists in the basement of a local church, I am clearer now that this is a movement.
Dr. Brittany Cooper writes "...a conversation emerged about whether the uprising in Ferguson constitutes a moment or a movement...Movements take a long time to build and are generally an accumulation of critical moments. The Greensboro sit-ins of 1960 were part of a longer trajectory of college students practicing the "stool-sitting" technique begun in the early 1940's by college students at Howard University and other historically black colleges. The 1963 March on Washington was the culmination of a 22-year March on Washington Movement that began in 1941 when A. Philip Randolph threatened to march on Washington as a tactic to force desegregation of federal employment agencies.
Movements rarely appear to be movements in the midst of them. ...We should, I think, not miss the moment trying to theorize the movement. We have to leave certain conversations to history.
Yet, having spent time in Ferguson... marching, standing in community over the site where Mike Brown's body lay unceremoniously uncovered for four hours, and organizing with activists in the basement of a local church, I am clearer now that this is a movement.
"I am not AFRAID to die": why america will never be the same after ferguson
Salon, Sept. 3, 2014