Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱"The French protests over the killing of Nahel Merzouk have not changed the brutal policing of Black and Arab youth in the banlieues.
"The BRAV-M has not been dismantled. The police Alliance has not had its grip on power broken. The far right still threatens to break through the firewall.
"We can ask why more people aren't doing more, and how do we organize and break through the complacency that defines white American culture.
"I'm not sure I would be looking to Western European neocolonial powers for shining examples though.
"We don't need to look to France or the Netherlands for a resistance blueprint, we have Black and indigenous radical resistance movements here in the US with an unbroken 500+ year history.
"We really need to center whiteness less and learn to develop some humility and solidarity."
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-09 at Bluesky
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