suburban Chicago: I got a detention for challenging my teachers assertion that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery. It was AP US History Imao - Astead Herndon

Perry making the impt point: hand wringing abt the alleged ineffectiveness of slogans like defund the police come from electeds or pundits who only see change thru electoral politics. That is not the goal of many activists. They are not setting out to help Dems win elections

I think The New York Times is the best day-to-day news outlet in the world.

stop falling for the spin of "we would've done real police reform if it wasn't for pesky activists yelling defund" from electeds who haven't shown any interest in doing things about police reform