by Khalil "Kingston"
The question was posed earlier today as to whether the American police force actually needs to be completely restructured, and should People of Color expect to ever see it happen.
My answer is, yes. The police force certainly doe need to be restructured!
But lets look at those 2 words...
Police. Force.
We have seen that that organization of "civil servants" is neither civil nor serving anything but The SYSTEM out of which it is born. It was never MEANT to be!
The police were meant to be the pitbulls of the system just as the Overseer was the enforcer of the slave master.
THE SYSTEM is what needs restructuring if the term 'civil servant' is to mean what it's supposed to mean.
I JUST SAID A MOUTHFUL!
Because in order for the System to be restructured, HONESTY that is free of a racist perspective is mandatory, and I just don't see that happening in this country. That would mean white people first of all acknowledging that they enjoy white privilege, AND what that means for people who are not white.
That first step alone will be met with extreme resistance! In their eyes they have too much too lose by distributing justice justly and impartially and by putting into play practices that eliminate their present practices that were designed in the first place to benefit THEM.
To be brutally honest, a government system that was open to such a change would not have to be begged, protested and marched against, and threatened with insurgency just to have them PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE that their policemen are doing too damn much when it comes to killing and brutalzing non-white citizens!
Thats why, for instance, although our current President is black, we cannot expect him to spur this change, because AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, he ESPECIALLY serves firstly, the government. Represents the government and the societal mores that government has in place!
BLACK OR NOT KINDREDS, YOU WILL NEVER HEAR BARACK OBAMA OR ANY OTHER PRESIDENT MAKE NO SPEECH TO THE NATION BLUNTLY ADDRESSING WHAT THE POLICE HAVE BEEN DOING HERE!
The system stresses "a united front", even in cases of injustice and that motto is passed down the ranks; the policemen is expected to honor it too, thas why those who speak out against fukd up policing ARE THEMSELVES POLICED, THEN PENALIZED!
Irony of it is, when police brutalize and murder POC, and you see and hear high-ranking officials say "they were doing the job they were hired to do", they're telling the truth. That actually IS their damn job, since the very inception of the police force way back in the day!
A Sister posted yesterday an article that compared U.S. prisons to Norway's prisons, how vastly they differ when it comes to inmates of color and how its set up etc.
They differ because the history of both countries differ!
Slavery
is AMERICAN
at root!
And the penal system here grew out of slavery.
Boom!
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