Randall Kennedy is very smart, and no doubt a very good man, who has put forth a sincere analysis. But he wouldn't have a platform to talk about the precisely appropriate way to advance progressive causes if "disrespectable" Black people weren't in the streets making noise and dying.
That's really all I have to say, but I'm going to indulge an academic's bad habit of carrying on after the punch line.
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I understand wanting to turn to African American brothers and say, "Pull up your pants!" I don't understand wanting to be seen doing so.