Raz Simone: definitely sorta arguably the precipitator.
I write to you today from the great planet of Brooklyn, the place where Christopher Wallace might’ve first pondered his classic “What’s Beef?” Beef, he’d agree, is what has left people dead from gun violence in Seattle all summer. RIP to the fallen. Beef is using those killings to target black spaces—but nothing new. Beef is the police killing us over and over and over. Beef is white supremacists tagging “White Lives Matter” on the tombstone of Alex Haley’s grandmother. So beef, then, is: by all means necessary…