Dispatches from the Uprising

"In this regard, to ask that a riot be not a riot but productive – that it be work, that it be daily – is to ask that those who riot contribute instead to letting what politics has long meant in the US: a reproduction of what already is, an open denial of history. It is to insist that they participate in a schematic that literally has no place for them, one which can’t manage to offer more than 50% employment in Freddie Gray’s neighborhood. Who could want to be productive, given all this?"- Evan Calder Williams