Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "What the Chauvin Verdict Means for the Racial Justice Movement" video.

  1.  Kes Mangkuk  Can you cite this? It was my understanding that a thorough forensics found the defendant guilty of asphyxiation.
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  2. Blacks being an oppressed people is weird logic. There are certain inequalities blacks face that other groups don't, but that applies to other groups as well. Blacks oppress Hispanic and Asian people vie violence in the street, but I wouldn't call Black people oppressive. The entire logic of "the systems of America are White Supremacy" kinda removes the agency of groups gleefully harming other communities for their own ends, as well as genuine internal issues. Because frankly, Democrats bowing and virtue signaling is essentially all they can do barring a massive shift in the prison and police system. Everything else is far more on-the-ground change, and some of it is self-inflicted (anti-drug policies were championed by black activists back in the day, and now its perceived as an arm of White Supremacy, for example). It's all complicated. And people just dumb it down for easy bites.
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  3.  Kes Mangkuk  The autopsy confirmed that the knee on Floyd's neck was what caused his death in the court room case. Wdym? Where'd you get the Fentanyl stuff?
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  4. Not only would it be too expensive, it would be impossible to actually stop. It's one thing to shoot down every major shipping of slaves like back in the day when only a few countries had the capacity to even make ships that could travel oceans. Another thing to go into countries and force an end to slavery. Not only that, but countries would need to stay there indefinitely to make sure it didn't come back. It's a war with no end, literally.
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  5.  Kes Mangkuk  I mean, sure? But I haven't heard of this, so I'm asking for a source.
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  6. That's literally impossible barring a shift in politics. Making change in laws is difficult, and so is rolling back laws -the status quo in politics is "how it is" right that very second. If new laws are made that restricts police, then that will be the new "status quo", and it'll be hell to shift/change until a new political force advocates for that change. With the rising violence across the US, restrictions on police may become more and more unpopular. So it depends.
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