“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID!

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It is at the center of our national attention. And, justiably so. It’s presence permeates our
national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We cannot forget the sight of a WhiteCop
prosecuting, convicting, and executing George Floyd. AnotherBlack Man got the Death Penalty
for no apparent reason. The swirl of police killings of Blacks, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery,
brought to my mind a system that has been condoning racist police killings ofinnocents in Texas
since the mid-Seventies. Police armed with no-knock warrants, and a “shoot-rst and askquestions-later’’attitude also carried along a throw-down gun and a match box of Marijuana
(nobody but Police carried MJ around in match boxes). In 1968 – 1970 while I was in law school,
students would get opportunities to show and tell about the things that they learned while riding
the street with police