Cut The Bullshit: You Perfectly Understand Defunding the Police
By: Corey B. King
Tags: Defundthepolice, Police Brutality, Barack Obama, BlackLivesMatter, Justice In Policing Act

Cut The Bullshit: You Perfectly Understand Defunding the Police

President Obama weighed in on the defund police discussion earlier this week in an interview. Here comes the Obama dick riders and the political hero worshippers who just take anything any politician says as gospel and using this opportunity to promote the false narrative that to the slogan “defund the police” lost actual elections when there is not any statistical or empirical data to support their claim. Then you have your extreme left socialists who do not like President Obama anyway, and would find the need to disrespect and disagree with him at any cost. However, the best commentary came from Sonny Hostin, LaTosha Brown, and several other prominent Democrats who even though they disagree with the former president, they kept it respectful.

Let us be honest. The idea of defending police is not a problem of sloganeering. If you are aware of recent history, and historical movements, people had problems with Black Lives Matter, which is why it turned into All Lives Matter, and Blue Lives Matter; they also had a problem with the MeToo Movement. Racist white people have a problem with anything that does not center themselves; black people who are enamored with the white gaze, have a problem with anything, which does not pivot them closer to being white adjacent, and the people who just want to be right, all do not give a damn about Black lives.

Madam Vice President Kamala Harris and several other prominent Democrats developed a Justice in Policing Act, which was a very progressive form of police reform. Guess what? Since June it has been sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk unsigned, unreviewed, and not one vote taken on the Senate floor. He also has a second stimulus bill on his desk as well, for those of you who keep asking about when you get your next check! So, it does not matter if you call it defunding the police, reforming police, reallocating funds, or policing the police, anything that threatens white supremacy and white dominance in our society would not be appealing to racists. So, for those people, Black people specifically, who keep shouting that sloganeering loses elections, or that you do not get what you want, white racists are not voting for you anyway, and they are never going to give you what you want, especially if they lose some of the power and control, they have over you. It is a fool’s errand to keep trying to appeal to their sensibilities, sense of humanity, or their moral integrity. Meanwhile Black and Brown bodies are still dropping in the street. So what’s a greater sense of urgency? You appeasing white people, on the off chance that they may vote for you, or reducing the number of Black mothers burying their children daily due to senseless police gun violence? I say the Black mothers should be the priority, especially when 91% of those Black women showed up to the polls for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. It seems to me that the expedient thing would be to do is to appeal to the Democratic base, which is Black women. Because we know that regardless of the message, the messenger, or whether there is anything in it for them, Black women always do the expedient thing, and not only do Black women vote properly, but they also organize, and make sure that others get to the polls, and use their platforms and resources to promote the Democratic agenda.

So, for those who say that a slogan, defund the police, is problematic, what do you have as an alternative? How do you keep my Black ass from getting gunned down by a trigger-happy cop when I go out and perform normal functions like exercising, grocery shopping, and doing things other people, who do not look like me, do every day? What is the guarantee that I will return home as safely as I left?

Let me say this to my white brothers and sisters, barring a traffic accident or a medical emergency, you do not have the innate fear that you are not going to return home safely once you leave it. If you encounter a cop, at the most, he is going to ticket you and send you on safely to your destination, or you may even receive a personal escort back home to make sure you get there safely. That is not the case for Black and Brown people; therefore, I do not want to hear anything you have to say about defunding the police, about elections, or anything related to this matter, because it is not your fight. What I want you to do instead, is use your time, your platform and your personal business talking to those 73 million relatives of yours, who voted for Donald Trump. Because we know there are some Trump voters in every white family, so rather than policing Black and Brown people’s social media accounts, rather than trying to lead a discussion on defund the police, or rather than trying to chastise Black activists from even mentioning the slogan because you feel like it loses elections, talk to your fellow family members, neighbors, and coworkers, who despite a pandemic, being negligent and derelict of his presidential duties, and his failure to follow the Constitution and the rule of law, despite colluding with Russia, your family members, neighbors, and friends, stepped in the voting booth to vote for another four years for the worst thing things that has ever happened to this country, you need to reconcile that; Black people can handle the activism, the fighting for our rights, and making sure that we are not target practice for some cop. You need to deal with your people!

Because trust me, people understand defund the police, but it is the white supremacy and the white appeasement that are the more attractive points.