Mayor Marty Walsh and Governor Deval Patrick have both condemned the current anti-racist movement and its participants as “disruptive” to the city of Boston. But Boston is a city that stops, on average, 152 Black and brown people a day on their ways to work, to their homes, to school and to their families. Is that not “disruptive”? Boston is the third most policed city per capita in the country. Is it not disruptive for Black and brown residents to live under this extensive surveillance, under police intimidation and brutality? How can elected leaders of our city and state support the violent disruption of Black lives, but not the people resisting that very violence? A delay in traffic or on the MBTA is not comparable to the constant state of fear and anxiety created by police in Black and brown communities.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:32:13 +0000
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