I think for the first time in a long time, the country is willing to look a little harder at the systemic racism built into so many aspects of our American communities and lives. The legal system, including policing, has had built in racism for 100+ years. And no system is not connected to the others. Policing, housing, social services, and the way politicians portray all of them is tainted with racism that effects people's lives everyday.
We have a system that victimizes blacks and minorities, and we have a political party that blames the victims and makes them the villains to justify further policies that make it harder on them. The entire narrative on racism for generations is just wrong. The GOP's mantra of slashing the social safety net is based on racist views. Layer upon layer of racist policy feeds into more racism until you've got a totally separate America for different groups. The War on Drugs, Welfare Reform, Mandatory Minimums etc etc, they go on so long and blend together so much that people no longer recognize them for the racist ideas they are.
The War on Drugs exists to victimize minorities!
Welfare Reform exists to victimize minorities and label them with racist ideas!
And on and on, school of choice is about race, labor laws have a racial component, every law is about making life harder for minorities because the racists who push them will never accept minorities as their equals.
America has had chance after chance to make things better and without fail has chosen the opposite path, from Jim Crow, to Redlining after WWII, to segregation, to re-segregation, to the War on Drugs, to the militarization of the police force, every decision was the wrong one morally. Each one made a big difference.
The entire system needs to be opened up and remade, anything less is not justice.
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