[Book Excerpt #5\”The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
From May 1 to May 3, of that year, Black Memphis neighborhoods were victimized by White mob violence. White policemen were the main culprits in igniting the mayhem and murder that occurred.
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[Book Excerpt #4 on: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
In the 1876 Cruikshank Case the Supreme Court ruled then”The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution.”
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[Book Excerpt #3 on: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
Southern policing, which morphed from these vigilante-style Slave Patrols, would soon show its pernicious effects—especially, in cases where southern sheriffs collaborated with lynch-mobs, and racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
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[Book Excerpt #2 on: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
If Black-Americans are to be successful in combating the scourge of an institutionally racist police system, we must have a clearer fuller appraisal of the true purpose of police, especially as it relates to us.
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[Book Excerpt: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”
The real truth, as it relates to Black Americans, is that: the police represent a domestic terrorist organization that is sanctioned by America’s White political structure to control Black people. This has always been so.
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