Sublime

how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.

From this point of view, Rodney King’s protective reflexes, the disorderly movements by which he struggled to stay alive (he flaps his arms, staggers, tries to get up, stands on his knees) were described as being under his “total control” and as evidence of “dangerous intent,” as if violence were the sole voluntary action possible for a Black body,

Oublions Marlon Brando et son numéro raté de Panthère Noire. Ce qu'il importe de dire, c'est qu'il y a parmi les Blancs des inadaptés psychologiques, des misfits, qui utilisent la tragédie et la revendication des Afro-Américains afin de transférer leur névrose personnelle hors du domaine psychique, sur un terrain social qui la légitime. Ceux qui ca