Police Brutality

Police brutality is what all the protests have been set off about.

But that's not what the uprising is about.

The systemic racism is deeply rooted back to the Constitution when a slave was only three fifths of a person, had no voting rights, no rights whatsoever. The Bill of Rights didn't apply to slaves, indigenous peoples, women, children. Rights were given to property owners - mostly white dudes who like to wear wigs and high socks.

Yes, to be a black woman in 1780's America was the worst trick fate could play on you. You think you're born into this great free, newly created democracy only to have the rug pulled out from under your feet.

So much for equality. Then the message changed.

Yes, the authors of the Declaration of Independence claimed us all to be equal, but somehow that message became equal in opportunity. When it became evident that equal opportunity was also a lark, the mantra became hard work and perseverance - the old bootstraps routine.

America is full of bullshit.