White response to the Kerner Commission helped to lay the foundation for the law-and-order campaign that elected Richard Nixon to the presidency later that year. Instead of considering the full weight of white prejudice, Americans endorsed rhetoric that called for arming police officers like soldiers and cracking down on crime in inner cities.
Nothing has changed.
When unopposed global capital turns back time to the 1830s
it’s always been the 1830’s, they just imprison them first