Category: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / Selected Media

Why should we trust you? Clinton’s big problem with young black Americans

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Read the full article from The Guardian, here.

“The incongruent logic of deploring ‘systemic racism’ while championing the US as ‘the last, best hope of Earth’ lends itself to the constant questioning of Clinton’s sincerity. Perhaps she thinks that both can be true, but others might conclude that the candidate has either not truly grasped the depth or scale of the crises in black communities today, or that she will say anything to get votes.”

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / Selected Media

How We Get Free

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Read the full article from Jacobin, here.

“Perhaps at its most basic level, black liberation implies a world where black people can live in peace, without the constant threat of the social, economic, and political woes of a society that places almost no value on the vast majority of black lives. It would mean living in a world where black lives matter. While it is true that when black people get free, everyone gets free, black people in America cannot “get free” alone. In that sense, black liberation is bound up with the project of human liberation and social transformation.”

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