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Non-Indictment in Breonna Taylor Case Settles It: Black Lives Do Not Matter
The Grand Jury Couldn’t Even Bring Itself To Say Her Name
The indictment of only one of the five white cops directly involved in the murder of black Louisville, Kentucky emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor in her own home almost six months ago proves, once again and perhaps most emphatically, that this society still considers black people as less than fully human. This grand jury’s non-indictment has come down to us at the obvious urging of Kentucky’s Republican so-called “black” attorney general and signals that no matter what or how or when black people say or do in protests, in “riots”, revolt or revolution; no matter how “respectably” we may present ourselves; no matter what our income, wealth or “social class” status may or may not be — black life in this country simply does not matter.
As I and many others have regularly observed, police in this country (21st Century Slave Patrollers) are deliberately, consciously, and by design, tasked with the coercive and violent “social control” of this nation-state’s forty-five million black people. That is their principal and primary Job One, their raison d ‘etre, and no amount of “reform” or “training” will or can change this dynamic. Cops do not need to be reformed or trained to not stomp, beat…
