A "universal ethic of revolt" erupted across the streets of America. The 2020 George Floyd uprising was the largest upheaval in the United States in half a century. Within days of the horrifying police murder, thousands of people in hundreds of cities were marching, fighting, and throwing down for Big Floyd.
Drawing on extensive interviews with front-line participants from Minneapolis, Atlanta, Richmond, Detroit, and beyond, Arturo Castillon uncovers a key motivation for the George Floyd rebels: in a world governed by laws serving racial capitalism, the revolt opened a path for ethically meaningful action.
Amidst grief, crisis, and isolation, Castillon highlights how the revolt allowed front-line fighters the experience of a shared world denied to them under the current order.
No Bad Protestors shows how this ethics of social war was a central factor in why American cities rebelled in 2020--and how the fear this uprising struck in the hearts of the ruling classes has shaped our current reactionary political landscape.
「一種『普遍性的反抗倫理』在美國街頭爆發。」
2020 年的 George Floyd 起義,是美國半個世紀以來規模最大的動亂。在那場駭人聽聞的警察謀殺案發生後幾天內,數百座城市便有數千人走上街頭,遊行、抗爭,為 Big Floyd 挺身而出。
Arturo Castillon 廣泛訪談了來自 Minneapolis、Atlanta、Richmond、Detroit 等地及其他地區的第一線參與者,揭示 George Floyd 反抗者的一項關鍵動機:在一個由服務於種族資本主義的法律所支配的世界裡,這場反抗為人們開闢了一條實踐具有倫理意義之行動的道路。
在悲痛、危機與孤立之中,Castillon 強調,這場反抗讓第一線抗爭者得以體驗一個共享的世界——而在現行秩序下,這種體驗原本遭到剝奪。
《No Bad Protestors》展示了這種社會戰爭倫理,如何成為 2020 年美國各城市爆發反抗的核心因素;同時也說明,這場起義在統治階級心中激起的恐懼,如何形塑我們當前反動的政治景觀。
Arturo Castillon is an independent researcher and teacher living in Philadelphia. With Shemon Salam, he is the co-author of several texts that appeared in The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising (2021) and The George Floyd Uprising (2023). Other works include "Policing and Resistance in Philadelphia," in Black Quantum Futurism: Space-Time Collapse II (2020) and the zine Bury Me Not in a Land of Slaves (2019).
Arturo Castillon 是一名居住於 Philadelphia 的獨立研究者與教師。他與 Shemon Salam 共同撰寫了數篇文章,收錄於《The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising》(2021)與《The George Floyd Uprising》(2023)。其他作品包括收錄於《Black Quantum Futurism: Space-Time Collapse II》(2020)中的〈Policing and Resistance in Philadelphia〉,以及 zine《Bury Me Not in a Land of Slaves》(2019)。