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In reply to the discussion: Elephant in Living Room: White Supremacists w/ Badges & Guns murdering black men [View all]gollygee
(22,336 posts)The problem isn't just white supremacists. There are a ton of people, including people in law enforcement, who don't think they're racist and just think African Americans are inherently dangerous, and who simply don't value their lives. And beyond that the whole criminal justice sytem has a history of racism, all the way back to colonial times. No one has ever dismantled the criminal justice system and rebuilt it without racism. And then there are other systems that have racism built into them, like education, that lead to law enforcment problems. This is bigger than just a few bad apples who are white supremacists. This is a racist system in a country that is still racist. It's great to get rid of racist police officers, but if the system is racist, they'll just be replaced with similar police officers, who have the same training, the same regulations, the same practices.