After jokes like ‘abolition can wait’ resounded in the wake of the Tory Lanez conviction, a course correction: ‘I don’t care to condemn folks who celebrate Tory’s conviction, I do care about abolition being misrepresented.
The violence of carcerality is two-fold, though, and this is why convictions are not “wins” so much as they are sometimes understood by some as means to an end. Megan must still live with the trauma of being shot, and Tory is not encouraged at all to be accountable for his abuse—not even after being found guilty by the very system many of his supporters were anticipating would corroborate his innocence. That is not a win. Megan deserves to have never experienced this at all. This is true for all black women.
Source: Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can’t wait – Scalawag
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