How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride
…of the bargain,” not living up to its professed ideals—especially when it comes to black people and military veterans. One can imagine another kind of interpretation that would question the intrinsic purity of these ideals, that would show how “our” freedom and justice—rather than being fought for everyone—is always intertwined with coercion, suffering, dispossession, and danger for some community. While Kaepernick doesn’t take his vocal critique…
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