{"id":23960,"date":"2020-06-01T04:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2022-06-01T03:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:32:14","slug":"on-the-assassination-of-george-floyd-anger-and-hope-bring-justice-blacklivesmatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=23960","title":{"rendered":"On the assassination of George Floyd, anger and hope bring justice #BlackLivesMatter"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Another murder by police officers, this time in Minnesota. The video of the assassination of George Floyd, a Black man, by white police officers has shocked, as if it was new and surprising.\u00a0North or South, the location has no importance.\u00a0The justification for murders<\/a>, lies, and other means of destruction of the Other, the otherness grows unscathed from any sufficient doubts. Modern society talks about training, well-trained police officers, well-trained doctors, and well-trained nurses, but what is training if life is annihilated quickly and with \u201clegitimate power\u201d.<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The\u00a0headlines<\/a>\u00a0are descriptive:\u00a0Four Minneapolis officers are fired after video shows one kneeling on neck of black man who later died.\u00a0<\/strong>Although the article raises questions, it fails to tell the evidence of constructed racism, which is gendered as we observe the incommensurable level of violence imposed on women\u2019s, intersex\u2019s, transgender\u2019s bodies.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This time, it was a Black man.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Numerous books, studies are available from which those who would like to learn more about the reasons for this blatant injustice can educate themselves. Still, there is always someone to create a rationale of destruction, of wars of all against all.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Women are also part of the making of these destructive rationales, as now white women tend to assimilate with their men. The story is different for women of color; they have survived invasion, slavery, and all these “beauties” that were totally justified and still are.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I affirm that being a feminist is not only about having the right to vote (finally), to control our own body, it is about injustice, it is about crude, violent domination by patriarchal thought. This very domination that has created these ice men that can take all their time to assassinate someone because he is a dark-skinned man. There is no separation of good and bad, what makes the difference is the justification, the construction of violence and discrimination as legitimate means.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I have written on many issues that are clear examples of this justified violence. I have written about\u00a0the cold-blooded decision to send drones to kill<\/a>\u00a0women, men, and children far away in Yemen, using a perfect justification of war against terrorism. In reality, they killed people who were in the wrong location, wrong class, wrong belief system.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I have written on the massive\u00a0incarceration of\u00a0gendered bodies of color<\/a>\u00a0in Baltimore, a majority Black and Brown city which the man in power in the United States\u00a0\u201cdiscredited<\/a>\u201d. That mass incarceration was justified despite all the work and studies that demonstrated that these policies were non-sense.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I have written on the\u00a0shackling of pregnant women<\/a>\u00a0while they are in prisons or jails in the United States. The cruelty of shackling women\u2019s bodies for no other reason than asserting power over women\u2019s bodies is apparent and yet invisible, another evidence of madness justified.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I have written about\u00a0economic cruelty<\/a>\u00a0that has deprived women, men, and children of their\u00a0dignity<\/a>\u00a0and sometimes killed them. That\u2019s how the so-called \u201ccrisis\u201d in Greece that was actually driven by speculation was justified.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I have written about new ways of\u00a0exterminating the undesirables<\/a>, using\u00a0the Mediterranean sea<\/a>\u00a0as a means of extermination. The justification was easy to find: defend the borders in a time of obscene globalization. That justified Frontex, a legitimate army, to \u201cdefend\u201d borders against precarious lives.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In all these examples, and many more, justifications serve a market driven killing of this Black man, George Floyd. Look at the armaments, observe the development of digital blindness, and the overwhelming growth of inequalities with our worldly wealth being held in very few hands.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At the end of her life, Hannah Arendt anticipated this danger as she saw the new justification for madness coming: it was called neoliberalism. She declared that if it takes over the world, life would become superfluous. Life has become superfluous for many and for a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Excuse my anger, although Audre Lorde taught me that anger is sometimes necessary. I want to end acknowledging all the sisters and brothers that have fought these justifications to crude injustice with a passion. All the writing, poetry, and art have been made in the name of justice to inspire us.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Thank you to all of you, and let\u2019s again remember Audre Lorde, who wrote\u00a0Sister Outsider<\/em>\u00a0to convey hope, encourage solidarity, and instill power to fight sexism and racism that make these things possible. Emmanuel Levinas enounced that at the decisive hours when the lapse of values is revealed, human dignity consists in believing in their return. More than their return, let\u2019s imagine these values and organize everywhere to defend them in solidarity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Justice for\u00a0George Floyd\u00a0is justice for all,\u00a0#BlackLivesMatter<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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