You can march and march and march. You can protest every night for a year. I do not believe you can end racism, though, simply by demanding that it go away.
If that is the goal, it won't be reached.
But, if the goal is to root out racism and brutality from our police forces, that can be achieved. If you are saying, we are going to be out here protesting every night until our police forces are cleaned up, you've got a goal that can be achieved.
Not that we are making much progress so far. I heard one source say only eight police officers have been fired. This after more than a month of protesting.
You have to say what you want, and no one is saying it. We should investigate every officer in the land, background checking them, interviewing their co-workers, past employers, family, etc. Those with racist tendencies will have expressed themselves to others, and you can track them down. You can also give them situationals, asking them if they would use violence in those situations, and root out a lot of bad officers that way.
We are better than a month into this. We haven't yet, as a society, figured out what needs to be done. It is time we did, lest all this marching in the streets goes for naught.
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