I keep coming back to this:
What most Black people want is same policing experience most white people have. As AOC said, we’d like something that looks like most suburbs.
We would like an actual public service, not an occupying force in our neighborhoods.
What most Black people want is same policing experience most white people have. As AOC said, we’d like something that looks like most suburbs.
We would like an actual public service, not an occupying force in our neighborhoods.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1334127165542178816
The (mostly) white people who respond with “how could you live without cops?” when we’re talking about reform probably also would’ve said, “Why don’t Black people support public transportation, water fountains, and lunch counters” during the Civil Rights movement.
Show me white kids who wind up like Tamir Rice. I have already told my 6 year old that there’s no way he’s getting the same sort of toy weapons that every white kid in the neighborhood has.
Rudy Giuliani’s daughter was arrested for shoplifting. Somehow she didn’t get choked out on the street like George Floyd.
The interactions with the police and outcomes that Black people collectively have is not consistent with white people, who also have the benefit of actual law enforcement.
White lady in my relatively well off PDX neighborhood was once drinking wine in her front yard and came to talk to me on the sidewalk. I would never do that. This is the sort of minor infraction that can end badly for us.
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