when i said in my latest that “justice under racial capitalism is an impossibility, a liberal mystification.” i meant that, not just in that our carceral understanding of “justice” is bleak & unsustainable, but that it goes against the v fabric of the functionality of this system

they cannot indict cops b/c they are just merely agents, foot soldiers for the ruling class, first responders to capitalism-in-crisis. imprisoning cops would expose the most glaring contradiction that liberal reformism constantly tries to disguise: the problem is not *JUST* cops

they can’t incarcerate cops, ‘cause that would increase the imagination of what people think is possible, and would soon require the imprisoning of soldiers, politicians, ceos, members of the ruling elite, who have inflicted an incalculable amount of violence on the world

beyond that, i don’t advocate for or celebrate the incarceration of any individual(s), who have inflicted violence. prisons aren’t “justice” or “accountability,” and we have to get that through our heads. “justice,” to me, is a world where these violences don’t keep happening

i get the impulse, we internalize the logics and ideologies of the structures we live under. so i’m not mad at anyone.

but, the centering of demands of a movement around individualized notions of “justice” won’t end well. we have seen this movie too many times before.