It’s easier to dismiss established “policies and procedures” as mere aberrations by turning a blind eye to the context in which they occur–which isn’t some sort of “vacuum” created by America’s inherently white supremacist social, political, economic, judicial and educational institutions miraculously disappearing after the “Brown vs the Kansas Board of Education” decision. The issue isn’t the increasingly shopworn term “racism”: it’s a deliberate and conscious set of policies and procedures embedded in American institutions’ very foundations, which haven’t fundamentally changed. Any so-called “changes” are entirely superficial. White supremacist policies and procedures continue to work in our institutions without restraint from any so-called “reforms”. Those like you who are least affected, and benefit most, from them have no intention whatever of even noticing. We who have to fear daily for our children’s lives notice little else. We must always guard against those who target them.