Excellent series of tweets on what slavery was
by Reagan Gomez.
(Trigger Warnings for rape and torture, including of children.)
(Which really, says a lot right on its own.)
(Trigger Warnings for rape and torture, including of children.)
(Which really, says a lot right on its own.)
Anyway, I think her point stands: even if police per se started in NYC to control immigrants, in the South they did start as slave patrols.
That is so scary and sad, your sheriff was KKK. Wish I could be surprised by that. (Well, no, that'd be wishing to be ignorant. But I wish one could be non-ignorant and surprised by that, like it was rare.)
As many people have said before: if the police view the communities they "serve" as "them", and themselves as an occupying force, we shouldn't be surprised that they react with such violence. But it's ALSO a matter of impunity: cops kill black people (and Native Americans, and Latin@s, and poor or homeless people of all races) because they CAN. Because they consistently get away with it.
What bothers me more is not the individual killers, but the whole system that protects them and asserts they committed no crime. Murderers can be imprisoned, but if you won't admit anyone wearing a badge committed murder, then what can stop the killing?
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