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So has the way people have made heroes of vigilantes, encouraging, supporting and defending them. This vigilante impulse, what some call justice and others terror, has been a central feature of the American experience. Perhaps the most prolonged period of violent white vigilantism occurred in the decades following the Civil War, as lynchings surged. I am sure that many in the white Citizens’ Councils and the Ku Klux Klan also saw themselves as vigilantes. This list is long, and doesn’t only include individuals, but also organizations and entire periods of American history. One of his neighbors wrote in New York magazine that he had heard Goetz say at a community meeting that “the only way we’re going to clean up this street is to get rid of the spics and niggers.” He was hailed as a hero, but then more details about him began to emerge. In 1984, subway vigilante Bernard Goetz shot four Black teenagers who he said were trying to rob him. Money also poured in for Zimmerman’s defense. George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in 2012, was also a vigilante, and also embraced by the right.
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The killers of Ahmaud Arbery on trial in Georgia are also vigilantes. The idea of taking the law into one’s own hands not only to protect order, but also to protect the order, is central to the maintenance of white power and its structures. Rittenhouse has emerged as a hero and cause célèbre on the right, with people donating to help him make bail and one Republican strategist telling Politico that he “could see a future in which Rittenhouse becomes a featured speaker at the conservative confabs where activists congregate.” But perhaps the most problematic aspect of this case was that it represented yet another data point in the long history of some parts of the right valorizing white vigilantes who use violence against people of color and their white allies. One can argue about the particulars of the case, about the strength of the defense and the ham-handedness of the prosecution, about the outrageously unorthodox manner of the judge and the infantilizing of the defendant. The tape is a focused, 15-track effort that further adds to the mystery and lore surrounding V9’s masked persona, one banger after the next, and stands as easily one of the best UK drill projects of the year.Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old who shot and killed two men and wounded a third last year during protests of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, was found not guilty Friday of all charges by a Wisconsin jury. Murk With A Mouth does precisely what it sets out to do. “Shoulda Woulda Coulda”, featuring Ghetts, is a prime example of drill and grime united in sweet harmony, opening up with a stone-cold verse from Ghetts before V9 comes through and drops his signature brash, street-level bars over the R&Drill soundscape. “Master”, produced by Morts, is one of the tape’s many highlights-an exercise in what V9 does best: delivering straight-talking drill slappers! The bass-heavy roller ripples through speakers thanks to its weaponised drum kicks and V9’s booming voice. Returning with his new mixtape, Murk With A Mouth, the Hackney-bred rapper offers fans 15 new bangers, with guest spots from Unknown T, Ghetts, Mazza, Billy Billions, Jimmy and ZNZE sprinkled throughout the 41-minute set, while producers Ghosty, AV, Gotcha, Parked Up, M6, TN_490 and more bring the #98s star’s hood comic book to life.
