Chris Cuomo: Police reform won't happen until 'white people's kids start getting killed'

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118. But Ella Baker isn't really saying the same thing

Ella Baker is correctly saying that the killing of Black people isn't as important to White people. What Cuomo is saying is that more bad things happening to White people would make White people care more about the things that are happening to Black people. I don't think that's the case. They would only care that other White people are getting treated badly, and it's still no guarantee they'd actually do anything about it. They may still believe that authoritarian-style law and order is more important. Like I said in another post, white America, particularly conservative white America, is individualistic. They don't look at things from a systemic point of view. The police aren't racist anymore, they're just treating everybody like shit? Okay with them. The streets are safer.