Who Will Protect Us From the Police?
Submitted on July 27, 2011
By MICHAEL CALDERÓN-ZAKS - Counterpunch
...[W]hat happened to [Kenneth] Harding happens in colonized spaces to colonized subjects, from Hunter's Point to Baghdad. The victims are people of color. Five centuries of colonially-constructed rationales have served the purpose of minimizing the value of racialized subjects...The white supremacist authority...only needs to make a haphazard justification for its shoot-first and ask-questions-later approach. Being shot in the back for being black or brown will be justified by a complicit corporate press...
