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Various people had various proposed solutions\u2013the Socialist Workers were there, doing what they do best, i.e. holding up well-designed signs (\u201cEND MASS INCARCERATION, THE NEW JIM CROW\u201d), and there were some other groups at various points along the spectrum of plausibility. But if the crowd\u2019s obvious anguish is going to be directed toward political change that will have to come later.<\/p>\n

I was juggling various commitments, so I got there slightly late and left when the vigil\/rally itself ended, before the march down toward the White House. I was standing on the murmuring fringe of the crowd for much of the vigil. A man stalked behind us yelling, \u201cF*** peace!,\u201d calling the rally attendees coons and Uncle Toms. He kept up this cry for pretty much the entire vigil, including the moment of silence itself. People mostly tried to ignore him or drown him out. There was a point at which a man was speaking unintelligibly into the rally\u2019s official microphone; a Howard University student was calling out to the crowd about Howard alumna Mya Aaten-White, shot in Ferguson<\/a>; and this yelling man was stalking along the edge of the crowd, calling for violence. A Cerberus of pain, frustration, and anger.<\/p>\n

I was forcibly reminded of Riot Grrrl: the anguish, confusion, and urgency. The frustration of not knowing what we can possibly do to stop the violence with which we\u2019re threatened, and the shame at this lack of solutions, our inability to end rape or brutality. The frustration\u2013the crowd was chanting, \u201cWe\u2019re fed up! We can\u2019t take no more!,\u201d and I heard a woman say bitterly, \u201cI remember these chants from the Jena Six rally. I\u2019m sick of them.\u201d And the meta-frustration, because really, what good does \u201cWhat good does it do?\u201d do?<\/p>\n

I do think there are pathways toward a less-awful world. Here are a few<\/a> relevant<\/a> links<\/a>. There\u2019s already a bill being prepared to limit police miltarization<\/a>. That in itself isn\u2019t enough, obviously<\/em>\u2013police were attacking and killing unarmed black people before \u201cthe rise of the warrior cop<\/a>\u201c\u2013but militarization has worsened the ethos of the police. The SWAT teams and camo, the costumes and equipment and recruiting videos, change the mask of command which a cop wears. But my main point is just that last night wasn\u2019t a ten-point plan; it was the thing which comes before these plans and motivates them, the raw human emotion which politics (even best-available politics) can\u2019t encompass and often betrays.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"