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SYSTEMIC RACISM REQUIRES A SYSTEMIC SOLUTION

Systemic racism requires a systemic solution. They couldn't just make a law to integrate southern schools, they had to send in the National Guard.

When it comes to white cops policing Black spaces with their racist mandates, better training or civilian oversight is not gonna cut it.

Better training won't get cops indicted when they murder unarmed men, women and CHILDREN.

Civilian oversight won't keep them from sending the trial to Albany or Rockland County or giving them an ALL WHITE JURY or stop the prosecutor from recommending a lenient sentence or keep the judge from agreeing.

It won't keep the media from painting 14 yr. olds as thugs and menaces while ignoring the records of the killer police.

And it won't keep you from remaining silent or espousing the narrative that the media comes up with to explain it all away, knowing that your children are safe and will NEVER be their target.

Fire them! Fire them all!

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