Black people have been systematically thrown in the garbage from the arrival of the first slave ship to the present. That cop was just accelerating the inevitable. My students used to pull up mugshots online to show their friends their fathers. Washed through a system of inescapable poverty, humiliation, alienation, and frustration. Slavery then prison. Both horror stories that defy comprehension in their cruelty. If a 400 year undefeated streak of the American power structure vs the American black doesn’t tell you that this country cannot be reformed, will not be reformed, that as long as America exists the white power capitalist boot will continue to decimate black people then you’re ****ing blind.
