there are still social injustices perpetrated against black people, but black racism is no more valid a means of fighting them than white racism is a valid means of fighting social injustices perpetrated against whites. we need a more general civil rights movement interested in healing divides in society. you know what some of the big things we need to get there? safer, more rehabilitative prisons are what i'd consider the first step. the prison system should show compassion to inmates. it should teach both compassion and useful skills to them. we need to get rid of the entire concept of punitive imprisonment - punished inmates only become more criminal. prison labor should be mostly or entirely eliminated as well, as while it can theoretically teach skills, it tends in practice to lose money while hindering rehabilitation. with that taken care of, improve our police work to improve the clearance rate on homicides targeting black people. get black people who kill black people off of the street and into rehabilitation. i think we should regard the violent unsafety which faces black people as a civil rightz issue. i think deniable systemic bias against black people justifies a "let crime fight itself" attitude which abandons black people and deepens the poverty, hopelessness, and anti-intellectualism which typifies black communities. we should also invest in education reform. the current factory-oriented educational system no longer matches the needs of the industrial employers for whom it was originally designed, let alone anyone else. the stagnant rot in our education system and weak, incompetent gestures at reform which are all our politicians can muster is contributing to the decay of our society's technical potential, the weakness of our society's peace, and the stubborn unsophistication of our civics.
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