White Witness and the Contemporary Lynching
We are presently embroiled in a redundant public debate about whether it’s appropriate to watch and/or circulate images of black people being murdered by the police and other, nonstate killers. The videos, like that of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, are being watched and circulated regardless of the persuasiveness of arguments pleading otherwise, and I think this question—“Should we watch?”—now misses the point. Rather, why are these videos being watched? Specifically, why do white people continue to make cases for watching them? Читать дальше...