The FBI had far more reason to violently arrest Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge than they had to go at…

… Black men dismiss them with the same breezy equation that Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal did: A man had shot at intruders in self-defense, and for his mistaken belief that the right to self-defense applies to us, our deaths are justified. Black women like Breonna Taylor have been shunted — by race, class, and gender — into a place far fr…
Breonna Taylor and Bearing Witness to Black Women’s Expendability
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Ken Festa
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Oct 11, 2020
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The FBI had far more reason to violently arrest Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge than they had to go at Breonna Taylor the way they did. And yet, Ruby Ridge became a rallying cry for--and a driver of--armed, right-wing, White outrage and insurrection.
A "man's home is his castle"...but that's only true for White men and women, to overstate the obvious.
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