Statementism has crept up, is now flooding social media, websites and mainstream media. It is the focus of corporate America, organizations and institutions in the UK. There are visuals of corporate knee-taking flooding timelines in a bid to ensure their corporation is not simply engaged, but seen to be engaged and on the right side of what is a transformative moment turned movement.
Beware this new ism. Beware the weaponizing of the promise of real progress for the protection of profit and power in hands untouched by struggle and bodies unaccustomed to life-threatening protest or state-sanctioned violence and violation. The promise held tightly by activists, organizers and movements with decades long work in pursuit of justice should not be treated or subjected to statementism.
If the Public Statement is a beginning, we good. If it is your totality, what’s good? – Esther Armah
