"Organize to Mourn"

"He argues that this obsession with the past stifles radical politics. 'As a form of politics, of people mobilising in an effort to achieve or get things done, you have to ask if this is the right way. It seems inhospitable to serious change in the present--to resolving material inequality for example. It doesn’t seem promising.' It can also breed fragmentation in the place of solidarity. 'It cultivates a certain kind of identity politics, pitting groups against each other, when joining forces would be better. My impulse is that we need a universal politics which help all the poor.'"

Tiffany Jenkins in Spiked interviews CUNY's John Torpey, author of Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics.