Ferguson’s civil disobedience was aimed at disrupting racial habits, not just one verdict

Evidence

These young people engaged in acts of civil disobedience to disrupt the traditional theater of America’s racial politics. No charismatic preacher stood at the front of the march. No long sermons. Just a concerted effort to force those in power to hold Darren Wilson accountable for the senseless death of Michael Brown. That specific demand came with a broader claim about how we police black communities in this country and how black people are criminalized (no matter what they are doing). In short, these young people challenged our racial habits. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 593

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: This is the concept the reader explicitly needs: racial habits as the automatic, unexamined criminalization of black people, distinct from individual prejudice.

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• Ferguson protesters broke with church-led civil rights performance to challenge policing. (similarity 0.92)
• Ferguson-era activists favored improvised leaderless actions over permitted marches (similarity 0.81)
• Racial habits are inherited racism encoded in accumulated ordinary decisions (similarity 0.79)