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“Unity” is the word that white people use when they want to accommodate and appease the forces of white supremacy. It’s what made anti-slavery whites in the North compromise and unite with rapists and murderers who held human beings as farm animals in order to have a Constitution... It’s the word white people invoked when they advocated the imprisonment of “outside agitators” like Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis during the civil rights era. “Unity” is what oppressors always call for when they seek amnesty for their actions. f*ck unity. The calls for unity from House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, Senator Marco Rubio, and any number of Republicans who have enabled and emboldened Donald Trump for years are nothing more than a veiled threat: Accept the violence already committed, or risk additional violence against you.
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