What the Hell Does ‘Defund the Police' Even Mean?

Actions taken in moments of anguish and frustration may feel

good and even work to deflate the anger on both sides of a sensitive issue, but

they don’t often end up on the right side of history.

Consider a racist

and militarized civilian police.

It’s not hard to consider, we’ve

seen it in all its vicious majesty in every decade of our nation’s history. We

are, in the most honest and sensitive definition of the word, a racist nation.

Sit back, adjust the twist in your knickers and recognize

the social, economic and spiritual distance between who we are and who

we think we are. That’s never been shown more visually and accurately

than in the recent days of national anguish over George Floyd’s death at the hands

of Minneapolis police.

There are always camel’s backs in

the history of man and straws that break camel’s backs. That great mass of

Americans, known as the silent majority, are truly and finally fed up with the sometimes

daily and surely weekly murder of unarmed black men by police.