The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide

Abstract

The ongoing marginalization and premature, preventable death of disproportionate numbers of black persons in the African diaspora create the very conditions for the revolutionary transformation of our societies. Antiblack genocide generates the imperatives of liberation and revolution. Either we begin to address, redress, and do away with what makes possible the multiple facets of antiblack genocide or we succumb to the dehumanizing values that produce and are reproduced by the systematic, persistent disregard for the lives of Afro-descended individuals and their communities. It is not only black people who are affected by antiblack genocide. Inasmuch as the core values we organize our lives by depend on and are energized by devaluing the lives of others, we are relegated to living a life of fear, terror, and imminent death. As long as there is oppression and senseless death, we will be oppressed and require the continued killing of those deemed unworthy. If there is truth to these propositions, then we fail to realize our full potential as ethical and just social beings. The urgency of antiblack genocide calls for the total remaking of our lives and our values.KeywordsPolice OfficerBlack PeopleResidential SegregationDrug DealerWhite SupremacyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.