The Derek Chauvin trial {Mod Edit: Guilty on all charges}

tomwaits said

Let me spell this out for you I guess.

Police accountability can be implemented without addressing racism.
Racism in police should be addressed also.
These 2 things can happen exclusively of one another.
Police accountability discussions have stalled because all the focus is on race.

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I think I understand what you're getting at. You seem to be saying that Police Unions and such will never be truly reformed because they'll always continue the status quo as long as the race card is played.

You are arguing that the race card is preventing reform from happening because those resisting reforms will use the race card as an excuse not to. So the cart before the horse is racism before reforms.

I'd argue that both can be addressed at the same time. Reforms have to happen, and addressing and fixing the systemic racism has to go hand in hand with the reforms. I understand you think they can be done separately, but I don't think that's actually practical. It's not going to be either/or. Both needs to happen or neither truly gets done.