Google+

Politics Done Right

Progressive Radio

Capitalism needs racism in some form with police as the enforcer

by

Call: (646) 716-5812 – “Facebook LIVE” – Live stream: BlogTalkRadio (Entire USA) Radio Show Date: June 24th, 2020
LIKE our Facebook page, SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel and Become a Patron. COVID

America is in transition and at a tipping point. Police, racism, and Capitalism are at its center even if not articulated in those forms. And the powers are scared.

Capitalism needs racism in some form with police as the enforcer

Very few connect capitalism, racism, and the police. They should.

The first part of the program featured Georgia Senate Candidate Tamara Shealey. I asked her what she was talking about today. She sent the following which I expected.

Let’s catch up with all that happening in Georgia…. Rashard Brooks, Jamarion Robinson, will Biden choose Stacy or Keisha…

We will follow that with a serious discussion of what many believe, are disjointed subjects but are not; racism, capitalism, policing.

We also discuss many other important issues.

Capitalism very related to racism

We need Medicare for All

I want your stories. Have you had issues with your healthcare coverage? Have you had billing issues? Did you feel like your insurance company was trying to pull one over on you? I am interested in every story you have with regards to healthcare. Drop me a line at info[@]politicsdoneright.com. Let’s make Medicare For All a reality.

If you like what we do please do the following!

Most Independent Progressive outlets continue to struggle to raise the funds they need to operate much like the smaller outlets like Politics Done Right

Blog of the Week

The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops

Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes in recent years helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.

But tensions between the police and black communities are nothing new.

There are many precedents to the Ferguson, Missouri protests that ushered in the Black Lives Matter movement. Those protests erupted in 2014 after a police officer shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown; the officer was subsequently not indicted.

The precedents include the Los Angeles riots that broke out after the 1992 acquittal of police officers for beating Rodney King. Those riots happened nearly three decades after the 1965 Watts riots, which began with Marquette Frye, an African American, being pulled over for suspected drunk driving and roughed up by the police for resisting arrest.

I’m a criminal justice researcher who often focuses on issues of race, class and crime. Through my research and from teaching a course on diversity in criminal justice, I have come to see how the roots of racism in American policing – first planted centuries ago – have not yet been fully purged.

Slave patrols

There are two historical narratives about the origins of American law enforcement.

Policing in southern slave-holding states had roots in slave patrols, squadrons made up of white volunteers empowered to use vigilante tactics to enforce laws related to slavery. They located and returned enslaved people who had escaped, crushed uprisings led by enslaved people and punished enslaved workers found or believed to have violated plantation rules.

The first slave patrols arose in South Carolina in the early 1700s. As University of Georgia social work professor Michael A. Robinson has written, by the time John Adams became the second U.S. president, every state that had not yet abolished slavery had them.

Members of slave patrols could forcefully enter anyone’s home, regardless of their race or ethnicity, based on suspicions that they were sheltering people who had escaped bondage.

[More]

Read My Current Blog Posts

My Other Posts At DailyKOS.com`

Liked it? Support Politics Done Right on Patreon!
Become a patron at Patreon!