My solution is to focus on where power really lives, which is in the banks and corporations. I guarantee you that if the stock market performance hinged on reducing police violence things would be calm as fuck. https://twitter.com/EricCardenas93/status/1267448227978149888

There's a lot of moral grandstanding going on around civil disorder but the claim of institutional racism is accurate. We have a bureaucratic and political problem based on who has the power to tax/spend and who doesn't. It's not about what's in our hearts.

In 2012 I published a piece called The Housing Crash and the End of American Citizenship outlining the collapse of our social contract and predicting the rise of authoritarian trends and social disorder. None of this is unexpected.

Here's my piece in March on how Comcast uses monopoly power to stifle black voices, simply as a result of its business model and the legal framework the last few administrations have allowed. https://prospect.org/power/remote-control-comcast-monopoly-crushes-diversity/

The single most annoying moral grandstander in all of this mess is Donald Trump. That's what the MAGA right doesn't get. He's the President. The buck stops with him. Ranting about protesters and generally being a jerk isn't the job.