You should look at this opinion piece in Salon by Benji Hart as something of a palette cleanser, although after reading it, you will probably want to take a shower to wash the muck off. First, you should know that our friend Mr. Hart writes for a group blog with the colorful name of Radical Faggot. It's catch phrase is "Brown Knowledge Queer Justice" - just so you know where Benji is coming from. Second, prepare yourself for the most astonishingly stupid reasoning to justify violence you're ever likely to see. As a nation, we fail to comprehend Black political strategy in much the same way we fail to recognize the value of Black life. We see ghettos and crime and absent parents where we should see communities actively struggling against mental health crises and premeditated economic exploitation. And when we see police cars being smashed and corporate property being destroyed, we should see reasonable responses to generations of extreme state...(Read Full Post)