RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 10:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2020 at 10:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Institutional failure and systemic racism are not caused by individual corruption. Focusing on corruption and drape changing is nothing more or less than the concerted effort to avoid addressing a problem we may find difficult to name by diverting our efforts to a smaller problem more palatable to our sensibilities and notions of self as a country, or as people.
We've been doing that for some time, throwing individually corrupt (and non-corrupt) people into the flames as ritual sacrifice. It hasn't worked.
Perhaps we should organize our police force in such a way as to make it difficult to nigh impossible for a person to engage in such abuse, even if they are individually corrupt and very much do want to abuse our fellow citizens? What do you think?
We've been doing that for some time, throwing individually corrupt (and non-corrupt) people into the flames as ritual sacrifice. It hasn't worked.
Perhaps we should organize our police force in such a way as to make it difficult to nigh impossible for a person to engage in such abuse, even if they are individually corrupt and very much do want to abuse our fellow citizens? What do you think?
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