People defend policing because it’s a pillar of white supremacy and they are emotionally, psychologically and/or financially invested in preserving it. There are Black people who are invested in preserving white supremacy also. Always have been.
This essay I RT’d yesterday touches on whiteness as a religious belief in this society. This is key to understanding how whiteness operates. Many, incl oppressed Blk ppl, believe God & Jesus are white men, that racial whiteness is naturally superior. https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1386437187688796162
And this is how you end up with Black people—especially if they were raised with images of white Jesus & not raised in the Black liberation tradition of the Black church—internalizing these ideas of whiteness = good & blackness = bad & it manifests in their politics & worldview.
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