Thanks. I do want to say that I really agree with a lot of your points, regarding policing, prison, and the socio-economic focus there.

This is not happening in other countries. This is a uniquely American problem, and I urge you to stop normalizing it. This is NOT okay. I would argue that the only reason so many whites have been silent about it is because it is seen as a "black problem" and not pertinent to them. This is one of the many ways race is used to separate people with common interests and make them fight each other instead of joining forces to fight for what benefits them all.

The part that I highlighted here is one that I find to be extremely important, and one of my main problems with the rallying cry of BLM. I have always been a fan of separate, hyper-focused activist groups/movements, that then support each others work where alignments exist.

There are a LOT of folks who fall into the right/trump/tea/libertarian/etc range of things that would absolutely support a push to cut down on militarization of police, prison-industrial-complex, and so on... if it wasn't the the fact that currently jumping on that bandwagon seems to require accepting/agreeing to a lot of extremely left/socialist/marxist/intersectional assumptions & beliefs.

Have you ever heard of Dale Brown and the Threat Management Centers in Detroit?