On the bright side, the public can now plainly see that we don't just have a racist problem in our police culture. We have a police culture problem. #Tyre

@shoq

There’s a important scene in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, August Willson’s play and movie with Viola Davis. Ma’s band getting ready for a recording session. A black band member is overtly degraded and oppressed by a white man. The studio is run by white folks. The young black man is enraged by the racism. An argument soon ensues with another black man. Young man venting his rage. It escalates. They scuffle. The young man pulls a knife and stabs. Racism > rage > violence > death. A cycle.

Eric Puryear (@[email protected])

Policing in the USA is inherently racist, based upon how the system is designed. The result is that racism will be perpetuated even if the cops themselves are black (as with #TyreNichols killing), or even if the individual police are not intentionally racist. The system in policing in America isn't broken; it is performing exactly as it was designed, which is to uphold white supremacy. More on systematic racism here: https://blog.ericpuryear.com/2020/06/10/systematic-racism-is-real/

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