The Fight for Renty case was explicitly framed around Black Lives Matter

Evidence

Ben compared my fight to Free Renty to the Black Lives Matter movement. He said, in closing, “She made a promise on her mama’s deathbed, that her Papa Renty’s life mattered. That Black lives matter.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1190

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the reparations argument to broader claims about whose lives are counted — resonates with the reader’s note that small acts of decorum toward corpses matter more than practical logic.