Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley Failed Their #BlackLivesMatter Test

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40. Those who control the economy control the government and by extension the so9ciety itself

Bernie was right. While the group Black Lives Matter want immediate and specific answers to the abuse their African American faces, those answers do nothing to address the systemic racism being used to divide us. We have to make it uneconomical to oppress black communities as in Ferguson. We have to make it uneconomical to shoot down an African American shopper in the BeavercreekWalmart carryng a pellet gun. Yes changes in procedures can do much to eliminate these killings of people of color but the real cause of these racist actions is control and manipulation of our society for the economic benefit of the rich. If Beavercreek police actually felt they were responsible to black citizenry for their jobs and livelihood, John Crawford the second would have been talked to, not shot. If Ferguson's black voters, gain control over their police departments then the systematic looting by the police of the African American community in Ferguson will stop. These events tragically reveal what Bernie Sanders is saying, people black and white must take political and economic power back from the rich class whose goal is to divide the people for the economic gain of the rich.
So yes. there are ways to reduce the impacts of police racism which oppresses African Americans across our country, these include body cameras, removal of military gear, community based policing among others. But to really make a dent, the guys in charge have to want to do it. Police chiefs work for local government and local government like National government is controlled primarily by the rich. Until you make those racist actions unacceptable to those in control they live on. So Bernie is right, racism is a control mechanism used by the rich to focus attention on African Americans as violent, lazy, and undeserving. By this mechanism the rich prey on the insecurities of working class whites to win their support. So change economics to benefit more and more and you change race relations, not easy but very necessary.