persons doing the policing. In 1929 President Hoover appointed the Wickersham Commission to investigate why the entire nationwide police force was so ineffective and hated by the minority communities - very much like we see today. Prior to the study: Policing in your major Northern cities was based on a system in which local police commissioners and chiefs were hand-picked by local politicians. These same politicians usually also owned illegal drinking establishments, and/or were profiting from gambling, prostitu- tion, and many other illegal activities. And the local police departments worked as their personal street gang — intimidating voters, citizens op- posed to their activities, labor organizers - and part time slave catchers prior to the Emancipa- tion. The Northern police departments job was to control Blacks, but also targeted the European immigrants. They were the main source of cheap American labor in the North - to compete with the freed slaves in the confederate states. And in the post reconstruction South, local
police sheriffs and their officers were still basi- cally serving in the same role as the Ole’ Slave Pa- trols - “protect and serve” White people’s interests. Although, Southern police were as com- pliant with leaders of the illegal alcohol trade as were the Northern police departments. But their main job was to violently enforce the Jim Crow Laws and all the rules and regulations of South- ern segregation with an iron fist. The Wicker- sham Commission’s findings and recommendations became the blueprint for the so-called independent police departments we see today, in which the citizens vote-in the leaders. But it is now clear in 2020, once again, about a hundred years later, another total restructuring of our national policing policies, protocols, and key personnel is clearly needed.
One Page American History Lesson It is common knowledge that Black people
were the legal property of White people in this country until 1865 - a lil’ over 150 years-ago (the Slave Era). Yet, I hear your argument modern White people: “I’ve never owned a slave, I never use the “N”word, I don’t think black people are inferior, I have a lot of black friends, I’m dis- gusted by the KKK, and I cannot be held respon-
sible for what my ancestors did 400-years ago” - and you have a valid argument. But from a purely functional perspective, the black community feels strongly that this is the origin of White Privilege. Because you were born into a system that used each of those violent acts and negative ideology about Black people that were created centuries ago to give you a clear societal advantage today. While you’ve been openly telling us that you have all these advantages because you work harder than us, and made better choices in life. But we’ll discuss this in-depth later. For the next 100-years until the 1964 Civil
Rights Act was signed into law we were legally classified as second-class citizens (the Jim Crow Era). Just five months before I was born in 1965, Blacks in America were despised and hated so much by most white people in this country they devised a set of laws to insure they didn’t have to come in contact with us. And these laws were crafted and violently enforced to ensured that Blacks would be seen, but not heard, and have legal control over every aspect of Black people’s
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