Some things as to why shit is happening in American cities [View all]

[nadinbrzezinski]

To some here this will be well known and understood, but to others this will be new.

The shootings of young black men are symptoms. They are symptoms of police militarization. They are symptoms of lack of police accountability, These are also symptoms of a broken legal system that sees more African American youth go to prison than go to college.

They are symptoms of the deindustrialization of American cities, among other things due to NAFTA.

They are symptoms of a legal system that tends to punish AA men far more harshly than both hispanic and white males for the same exact crime. They are symptoms of the war on drugs. They are symptoms of the re-segregation of American cities and of gentrification. They are symptoms of lack of hope and jobs, and worst schools, not just bad, than those in white suburbs.

I could go on... but until people take off the blinders and realize where this is coming, we will continue to see this. All the body cams in the world will not solve this, if we do not work on the real causes. And some of them are lack of accountability for a legal system (that includes the police) that tends to go after black men, young preferably.

So to just say that if cops did this or the other will not do it. It is the whole system. If (and I do not expect to see it) we do not deal with it, well we will continue to see this every so often. That includes dealing with white supremacy...which is not accidental, and with implied bias, which we all happen to have dose off. Self awareness is the toughest part of this, but all can do it. It just takes a lot of self introspection.

And with that, back to work with me. Been at it all day.

Ed. Clarity