I’m Really Sick Of Police Apologists

I’ll gladly admit that getting back into the swing of writing articles is not nearly as easy as I thought it would be, not helped by the fact that — despite the job I have chosen requiring me to come up with new things to say about politics and the world around me, it seems civilization wants to keep the same controversies we once had. If I may borrow a quote from the famous sociologist Kenneth Clarke while testifying to the Kerner Commission:

I must again in candor say to you . . . it is a kind of Alice in Wonderland with the same moving picture reshown over and over again, the same analysis, the same recommendations, and the same inaction.

The Kerner Commission was established in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson in hopes of finding the cause of a then-recent series of riots in African American communities that occurred over the summer. The most infamous of these riots being the one which occurred in Detroit, where twenty three civilizations were killed. Many of these riots were in response to systemic inequalities, and the Kerner Commission concluded, to put it bluntly, that people would stop rioting over this issue if it was solved. President Johnson knew this all to well, and hoped his Great Society would be the thing that solved the systemic issues black Americans faced.