It is early June, and there are beautiful things happening, inspiring things happening. I’m exhausted, trying to process all this as I cycle through the routine of get up, wake child, potty child and change diaper, sing to child while making breakfast, feed child, offer kisses and reminders of love, walk for 35 minutes, return to basement, and continue to struggle to adjust to life working from home, trying to process the privilege of a paycheck, the polite, light-skinned, “Is-he-really-Black?-What-is-he?” privilege, the lying privilege of what might violently be called a “good” neighborhood, the fact that privilege seems important to acknowledge but also so, so, so inadequate as an analytic.
#Korean military struggles root out assaults skin
I’m exhausted, working from home, wondering how long I get to explain this feeling of overwhelm by calling myself a “new” parent, wondering about my child who most people think is adorable but who will be viewed as more adult-like as early as five, wondering about my child whose skin is slightly darker, whose hair is curlier, whose nose is flatter, whose squealing giggle is adorable. It is early June, and corporate media is no longer able to ignore the uprising and everyone is issuing statements. Yet we also increasingly recognize that contemporary racial capitalism deploys liberal and multicultural terms of inclusion to value and devalue forms of humanity differentially to fit the needs of reigning state-capital orders. We often associate racial capitalism with the central features of white supremacist capitalist development, including slavery, colonialism, genocide, incarceration regimes, migrant exploitation, and contemporary racial warfare.