After Floyd, Reparations
The Death of George Floyd Reignited a Movement. What Happens Now?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/george-floyd-protests-police-reform.html
What are chances Derek Chauvin will win an appeal of his conviction, generously funded by supporters, be freed, set off round of violent protests and more killings? Russia and China and Afghanistan and vast US national security believers delirious with pleasure.
While technoids are relishing attention on cybersecurity, and reaping rewards of advocacy, provocation, bountiful funding and celebrity, greatest threat to US remains racial, gender and economic inequity, simmering violence temporarily defused by benign "social justice" prattle.
Reparations for hundreds of years of racial slavery must be placed atop legislative, presidential, supreme court, states and municipal agendas in anticipation of increased demand for social and economic equity and to head off potential violence encouraged by US national opponents.
Decades of immensely wasteful national security industry expenditures must be curtailed and those funds redirected to reparations, if not done internal insecurity and related disruption will likely become the greatest threat to the US well beyond the capabilities of flaccid, militarized autocratic police forces.
What a saluatory effect would be generated by having the National Guard get out of military uniforms and procedures and serve as civilian corps of public service to assist fair and just implementation of reparations polices.
Not unprecedented such civilianized military vets come home for most honorable duty, unarmed, unthreatening, unterrorizing.