The author is arguing that
-multigenerational oppression of black people
-permanant underclass of mostly poc formerly incarcerated people w/o access to employment
-easy access to guns
-sympathy of public to anti police actions
Creates a situation where the US is likely to developed a non centralized anti police insurgency. The author then argues that the US should reform policing to prevent such an insurgency.
read everything Kelley has ever written, his work beautifully bridges the libertarian--vanguardist divide.