Many of my neighbors in my nearly all-white, ex-urban to rural Missouri county just dont get what all these protests are about. I think the following quote states what theyre about in a clear, concise way: Policing in America is not broken. The judicial system is not broken. American society is not broken. All are functioning perfectly, doing exactly what they have done since before some of this nations most prosperous slave-murdering robber-barons came together to consecrate into statehood the mechanisms of their barbarism. Democracy functions. Politicians, deriving their legitimacy from the public, have discerned the will of the people and used it to design and enact policies that carry it out, among them those that govern the allowable levels of violence which state can visit upon citizen. Taken together with the myriad other indignities, thefts, and cruelties it visits upon black and brown people, and the work common white Americans do on its behalf by telling themselves bald fictions of some deep and true America of apple pies, Jesus, and people being neighborly to each other and betrayed by those few and non-representative bad apples with their isolated acts of meanness, the public will demands and enables a whirring and efficient machine that does what it does for the benefit of those who own it. It processes black and brown bodies into white power. That is what America does. It is not broken. That is exactly what is wrong with it. From theconcourse.deadspin/the-american-justice-system-is-not-broken-1666445407
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:33:15 +0000
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