That's another issue. It's a separate issue. Our youth are criminalized at an early age. Some are just as innocent as lambs, but when they're roughhoused by police at age 7 or 8, it has a very traumatic effect. If you treat a person like a criminal, along with poor education and media products that portray blacks as criminals, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Racism is about systems, institutions, people in power maintaining that power.
It all goes together. Cincinnati needs some visionary leadership. We want to be cosmopolitan, but we're just a little southern town on the river. We don't even have a motto. We need more discussions like this one.