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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Exploitation is real problem</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The origins of policing are often connected to slavery.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">However, they are more generally connected to the needs of industrial and urban capitalism to control the work force, the working poor and the “reserve army of labor” (un-engaged in the work force).</p><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The legacy of slavery and Jim Crow determines that Blacks will be disproportionately represented among the latter two groups and that police (of any background) are more likely to adopt racist attitudes as part of their socialization process.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Nevertheless, the foundational problem is that of social inequality generated by capitalist exploitation of the working class and the violence “or implicit threat of violence and imprisonment” that is required to maintain economic production and social order, as increased inequality and decreased social welfare heighten the desperation of the most marginalized in globalized, neo-liberal capitalism.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The educational system “fails” a significant percentage of students because it must, given the structure and “demands” of the labor market and the stressed conditions of working-class families.</p><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="tncms-region hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Thus, anger directed at public schools by the NAACP, ACLU and those who claim to represent Black Lives Matter is misdirected at best and lurid at worst.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Silence is not violence, and local superintendents present themselves as cowardly managerial tools of capitalism when they give credence to such charges.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Exhortations to “defund” or “abolish” the police are similarly pathetic and can only result in more privatization of public services.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Rich liberals will pay for protection while reading about “White fragility” to ease their racialized guilt, as capitalist accumulation continues apace.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">DAVID GREEN</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Champaign</p></body></html>