Every journalist covering the DC Proud Boy gathering and neglecting to mention they ripped and burned a BLM banner that was on a *black church* — an AME church — isn’t doing their job particularly well given the specific history of arson, vandalism, bombing, etc. of those sites

This is how we get 5 years of coverage of Trump’s relationship to white nationalist social/political movements and still fail to understand structural histories of American fascism/authoritarianism, specifically rooted in chattel slavery http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/alberto-toscano-long-shadow-racial-fascism

What is the point of coverage of Proud Boy activity if you’re just going to chase after them with cameras and document their moves without properly contextualizing their actions and/as organizational goals? Are we simply supposed to be thankful the footage exists?

The massacre at Emanuel AME in Charleston was *only* five and a half years ago.