Police reform cannot solve the fundamental cause of Black suffering

Evidence

Resolving the policing issue would save precious Black lives and help preserve the dignity Black Americans still must fight for. It would make Black Americans safer and dismantle a tool of social control with a lineage that stretches back to slavery. But it would leave wholly intact the primary culprit of Black suffering today. If we seek to truly make this a transformative moment, if we are indeed serious about creating a more just society, we must go much further than that. We must get to the root of it. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1326

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• XREF: This claims to name ‘the primary culprit’ without naming it explicitly in this paragraph — links to the book’s larger reframing thesis that wealth inequality rooted in slavery, not policing alone, is the core problem. — connects to: Constitutional protections failed to prevent police violence that fueled Black Lives Matter. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 4326