Black Lives Matter (Some Limitations May Apply): Why Doesn’t BLM Care About Black Unemployment and COVID Deaths?
originally published June 2020
If there was no way to fix poverty the best that could be done was to contain it. Quickly, the War on Poverty morphed into the War on Crime. So fast was the transformation that the tools, bureaucracies, and funds allocated to the poverty war were instead used by police stations across the country to fight crime. Police departments began filling the spac…