let’s pretend for a second this is true universally across class, age, region. let’s also even ignore many of the factors that contribute to this phenomenon (such as local and national news hysterically sounding the alarm about crime even in moments where it is a marginal issue). black people can be wrong—and can be pushed on an issue!
are socialists of the belief that the police help more than harm black people? if not, even if you are not an abolitionist. is the task not to communicate a project that addresses exorbitant police budgets -> more police violence -> less public accountability, that comes at the expense of social welfare elsewhere instead of just conceding on it?
"I've made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police, that I will not be defunding the police, & that to me, delivering critical public safety also looks like working with our police department, alongside many other partners, & we've seen over the first 7 months of this administration what that can look like when we're talking about the fewest murders on record in NYC, the fewest shooting incidents on record in NYC, and that to me is how we measure a lot of our public safety." -@NYCMayor
The NYPD budget stayed flat and crime went down, but instead of using this as an opportunity to educate the public that funding the police doesn't correlate to more public safety, he makes the opposite case.
Finance capital has been pushing Black people out of neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant for years and this displacement is happening in cities across the country.
The poster is inaccurate when she says this neighborhood was mostly Black since the 1800s. Bedford-Stuyvesant did not become majority Black until the first stages of "white flight" in the 1950s.
Black removal from the cities of the US is the result of racism and a huge influx of capital. Black displacement has been established public policy for many years.
Also, population change is caused by people moving and not just by property theft. 200,000 Black people have left NYC since 2000. Market manipulation has inflated the price of houses. Working people are no longer assured of home ownership and leave for more affordable cities. This market manipulation also encourages deed theft, because there is more of a motive to steal properties that have increased in value.
There must be a national investigation of property theft. New York City can enact some rather simple regulations to make it more difficult to carry out. More legislation is needed to make the practice illegal and to prosecute the perpetrators.
I had a good discussion on the subject with @leahfrombklyn.
https://t.co/z3UzcKCVDR
The trans athlete debate is one of the biggest political distractions of our generation. The NCAA president testified that there are fewer than 10 openly transgender athletes out of 510k NCAA athletes. Yet this small issue dominates headlines.