It's a new day in America! Four hundred years of racial oppression are over! Systemic racism is no more!!!
On the other hand, the jubilation at getting one toxic cop off the streets is perhaps somewhat premature. What if there are others?
What if our winner-takes-all economic system, which creates mass poverty even more efficiently than it mints fresh billionaires, remains in place without meaningful reforms? Or, will this new day in America somehow rectify the injustices inherent in our society by equalizing the number of both rich and poor by race?
What if, after the euphoria recedes, after Reverend Al takes his private jet back to NYC, the millions living in hopeless urban squalor wake up and realize they're still living in the same hopeless squalor?
What then?
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