The defense insisted that at no individual beat in the dance of police violence was it possible to identify a rhythm or theme of racism. After an acquittal and the LA riots, Koons and Powell were subsequently convicted of the lesser crime of denying civil rights. The defense for racist beating or anti-Semitic writing is that the individual need not participate in a rhythm. The story of racism is a series of beatings, blow by blow in a rhythm whose theme is dominance. The dance of power, the movement of bodies to administer violence in the single beat as well as in rhythm, is a dominance that mystifies.
Racism has no time.
It is a pattern of beatings here. Published by permission of Mercury House .