‘1619 Project’ Author Defends Looting as a ‘Symbolic Taking’
‘I think we have to have some perspective on what exactly we are seeing when we call that violence and looting’
Jun 2, 2020 4:00 PM
By Grabien Staff
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EXCERPT: HANNAH-JONES: “‘Often the negro does not even want what he takes,'” Hannah-Jones said, quoting a Martin Luther King Jr. letter from September 1967. “‘He wants the experience of taking. Negroes have committed crimes, but they are the derivative crimes and they are borne of the greater crimes of the white society, so when we ask negroes to abide by the law let us also demand that the white man abide by the law and the ghettos as well.’ So I think we have to have some perspective on what exactly we are seeing when we call that violence and looting.”