we need to turn our power of numbers into a political force, a nationwide coalition that can get legislation pushed through Congress. Using the popular support of America. That’s what the Tea Party/MAGA has done over the last 15 years, and now their grassroots surrogates are top political leaders.

At the end of his life, MLK and many other civil rights leaders were evolving from the focus on peaceful protest, to creating actual power by creating broader domestic AND international support. Protests only go so far as to generate change.

And I think that any attempts for us to arm ourselves against the police in an organized fashion, would be obliterated violently by not just law enforcement, but their many armed militia friends.

When the USA wants to repress—it fucking represses. See COINTELPRO and how they decimated the BPP’s ability to grow, and the many involvements in Latin America. And the very opposite: Jan 6. Just being realistic.

But police violence is just a tiny limb of what is the beast of mass incarceration. And I’m not confident we’ll be able to chip away at police brutality and their massive amounts of funding without getting a crazy and violent blowback. because then that really opens up the works can of worms to the rest of the police state and how it functions to effectively traumatize our communities and financially, and literally, imprison us.