I've actually been worried that BLM has, for lack of a better word, a branding problem. I just got off the phone with both of my Trump-voting parents, and even they think that cops in general are out of control and these ones should have been charged with her murder. I don't want to diminish the fact that black people are statistically much more likely to experience this in America because racism keeps them as an underclass and the police function as an instrument of the class system to keep them there, but we do need to find a way to make it more clear to working class people across the board that this can happen to them, too.
I've actually been worried that BLM has, for lack of a better word, a branding problem. I just got off the phone with both of my Trump-voting parents, and even they think that cops in general are out of control and these ones should have been charged with her murder. I don't want to diminish the fact that black people are statistically much more likely to experience this in America because racism keeps them as an underclass and the police function as an instrument of the class system to keep them there, but we do need to find a way to make it more clear to working class people across the board that this can happen to them, too.