America knows exactly why the racial police brutality happens and continues. It’s the complicity of feigned ignorance by the White liberals and the “dog whistle” rhetoric that incites racist ideology on the right, especially by President Trump.
The Republican Southern Stratergy promotes by political operatives like Lee Atwater who said: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights,......
.......and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “

This the “Law and Order” dog whistle that President Nixon used
On January 6 2017, Richard Spencer and Neo Nazis father in Washington DC in the Ronald Reagan bldg. to celebrate the upcoming inauguration of President Trump as they threw up the Nazi salute telling “Heil Trump”. This is the atmosphere America is in today. The veil is lifted.
Systematic racism are the laws that protect police from prosecution when they kill (qualified immunity), politicians that promote those policies and laws, and the demagoguery of white liberal blindness and right wing incitement from violence
America can continue to pretend we don’t know what is happening or what to do. That is the biggest lie we tell ourselves.
-We know the laws that protect police brutality and refuse to change them
-We know the racist cops and their pratices and refuse to remove them.
-We watch the videos of the murders of men like George Floyd, Ahmaud Abrey, and Philando Castille and deny they are what they are....murder.
-We refuse to convict their murderers.
-We rationalize the murder of Black people as justified if a cop just says “I feared for my life”
-We refuse to stop the systematic racism to destroys Black wealth.
-We refuse to stop “red-lining” that denies insurance, loans, and correct valuation of property owned by Blacks
- We refuse to stop the same home owned by a Black person appraised for a lower value than if White
-We refuse to stop systematic racism in our education system denying opportunity for Blacks.
-We refuse to fund equally to ALL public schools, instead using that devalued property as the guide to fund less of your homes are worth less.
We continue to pretend we don’t know what to do. America’s racism is in our DNA. Like a chronic disease we have to be vigilant and fight it for our own well being. If we don’t control it, it will kill us. America is out of control. America is dying.
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