‘Quit faking': Police ignored Native American woman’s pleas for help before she died in jail

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7. I'm not sure we haven't gone too far. The police have all the cards.

When we told the south that slavery was over, it took a war, and judging by the numbers of their soldiers running around with flags and assaulting people on our side, it still isn't over.

Now the call is to remove racism and bigotry from within police organizations inside of which it is part of their very lifeblood. Their protection to be such is written into the law they are called on to enforce.

Won't be in your lifetime or mine, I suspect. At least not as long as this country built on the bones of so many innocent people stands.

I could be wrong, however. All the non-PoC western Europeans and the generations since their conquest might look in a mirror tomorrow and get physically ill at the thought of what they built. It sdidn't happen with the voting rights act - but that was the pres doing something.

The people never really said they did anything wrong, as I recall. The ones standing in the street yelling crap were still yelling crap, and breeding, after '65. So I kinda doubt we are gonna see the kind of soul searching and change of fundamental and primal beliefs that white folk have had for hundreds of years.

Don't know quite how to insure people treat others, who they have decided do not deserve it, with respect, via law, except in a very peripheral way.

They need to change their hearts.