what’s the discourse gonna become when we realize justice does not and cannot exist for the dead—especially in an anti-Black, capitalistic world—and that so much of these public calls are about everyone else and not about Breonna Taylor herself? https://twitter.com/kingnigel_/status/1296428665367080961

what’s really being demanded is vengeance, not justice. and that’s a legitimate thing to feel, but it’s not justice.

you want to avenge her wrongful death? name that. you want to feel at peace about her murder? name that.

every Black person slain by police is always already closer to being trademarked than receiving justice because we are always a commodity. and once we are pushed to a physical death by way of state sanction murder, and rendered a hashtag, justice is that much more inconceivable.

the viral tweets and memes are not translating to justice because they can’t. and you’ll never receive the vengeance you’re looking for from the state.

but i want us to name that that’s what we want rather than dragging this woman’s name through a perpetual state of death.

Hashtag Breonna Taylor won’t ever receive justice unless and until justice means abolition. because once we are hashtagged, our lives must always be about our deaths.

in a just world, Breonna Taylor wouldn’t be a hashtag; she’d be alive.