Has anything changed? A photo from 1919 shows a man being questioned by armed soldiers during the "Red Summer" of 1919, so named because of the racial and labor related violence and fatalities across the nation at that time 101 years ago.
National Public Radio broadcast a story today about the history of policing, starting with "slave patrols" in the South, and the long-term societal discrimination against racial minorities, and establishing a racial hierarchy going back 400 years:
"Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries."
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