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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White liberals like Nadeau, Silverman, Lazere, and Grosso think it makes them look woke in the eyes of the black community to endlessly pander and send violence interuptors instead of creating concrete solutions.  [/quote]

Except the Defund the Police movement started with Black activists in neighborhoods like OPs, not privileged white people. He or she disagrees with that, but neither is speaking authoritatively for people in those circumstances. As a white person in a decently safe neighborhood myself, I try to listen to both sides, but "defund the police is a privileged position" is just as wrong as "Black people all want to defund the police"[/quote]

This.  I am black and live in NE DC.  You all know damn well that defunding the police means that we will retrain police and increase social services.  It doesn't mean taking police off the streets.  I am reading Locking Up Our Own by James Forman about how black people had just as much to do with our criminal justice situation as whites.  In DC, black people didn't want drug treatment, they wanted young black people to go to jail.  They didn't want to decriminalize marijuana, they wanted young black people to go to jail.  They wanted to throw black kids in jail.  Those were not solutions in the 1950s and 1060s and they aren't now.  [/quote]

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