Bryckosphere

When people think about White Supremacy in the United States of America, rightfully so, they most likely think first to the most overt images stored in their memory: the confederate flag, the KKK, slavery, countless instances of white police brutality, the faces of proud white supremacists, perhaps even the current president. They might think of angry white men marching with tiki torches in the night. In instance of a racial slur being thrown. We default to these images because they are powerful and carry significant semantic value in American culture as a whole (though of course in very different ways). You can't be an American and not experience some kind of gut emotional reaction to these images. It's why we remember them.  What most people don't think about, and what they often don't see are the smaller but equally powerful and fundamental systems that structure our everyday lives and that perpetuate the ideology of inequality driven by institutions.  I'm talkin...

Alright. So the system is broken. Issues that have been piling up the closed door of the democratic system have boiled over. America isn't simply protesting, it's revolting.  We need to keep the protests going. We need to make meaningful change.  As Trevor Noah put it, the "social contract" has been broken with society, and the results are protesting, looting and passion in the streets. This is GOOD. We need to keep this going, and we can, now that we have nothing better to do, with the economy at a standstill.  But we need to make sure that these protests count for something. That we make lasting change to the system, and for that to occur, this protest needs to be different, be more. If we're going to protest for change, we need to make sure that we're doing it right, so that we can take hold of the power that we need to make a lasting difference in this country. Collective protest is the most basic form of democracy, and if we do it right, can become the ba...