Boston University Professor: ‘Black People Historically Have Been Property’

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GRUNDY: "If we're going to talk about George Floyd and really understand it, ‎then we need to understand community reactions to it. ‎And we often hear politicians, we hear civic leaders from inside black ‎communities and from outside of them as well. ‎We hear President Biden say, you know, I understand your frustrations, but ‎don't destroy property. ‎Well, when you say that to black people, who historically have been property, ‎one of our greatest weapons against injustice was the looting of ‎ourselves as property from the system of slavery. ‎And what we see in communities is they're reacting to the very racism of what ‎we call property, right? ‎So that's why I think it's very important for, you know, ‎people who see reactions in communities to not judge and ‎to not make assumptions about what is good and not good reactions.”