How to Save Black Lives
Black Lives Matter. Period. The deaths of black men at the hands of police are tragedies that we as a society must work to stop. Demands for change are appropriate and necessary. But, I worry that anti-police and anti-government protests don't help us move forward. To me there is a difference between insisting on systemic changes and insisting that authorities are evil. In the 1960’s governors stood in the doors of schoolhouses to keep black people out, politicians publicly advocated segregation, and law enforcement openly planned how to violently attack marchers. There is no 2015 -- or 2020 -- equivalent [...]