The anxiety that Hartman and others articulate around repeating this scene inheres in the awful configurations of power, desire, pleasure, and domination to be found not only in the original scene, but also in its transmission, transformation, and renewal, to which we in the present are equally inured. We know that the repetition of such horror does not make the violence of everyday black subjection undeniable because presented in its most spectacular form, does not confirm or confer humanity on the suffering black body, but all too often contributes to what Jesse Jackson calls—in the midst of the catastrophe of and catastrophic response to Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on black people and communities in the U.S. Gulf Coast—'an amazing tolerance for black pain... [a] great tolerance for black suffering and black marginalization.'

— Monstrous Intimacies by Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe, Christina Elizabeth Sharpe (Page 2)