ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
Except police brutality and an unjust criminal justice system that is heavily weighted against black communities plays quite a significant role in the economic brutality you are speaking of. It is extremely difficult to try and achieve economic equality when black communities are both over policed, more significantly represented in prisons, and are rife with gang-related crime due to years of economic inequality. When black men feel that the police are actively out to harm them, rather than protect them, it's pretty hard to make an argument that economic equality can be achieved. When "Will the police protects my property rights and family as an active and advancing participant in our economy" is a secondary concern to "Will these police officers shoots and/or beat me just for holding a phone", you have to consider the ways in which policing is perceived and executed play a role in social and economic disparity.
Numerous studies have shown the effect of fatherless households, which can have a huge impact on the likelihood of children being raised in poverty, and you only need to look at the ways in which black men are over-represented in the criminal justice systems - and in prisons - to see how these two things may correlate. (SOURCES: The Causal Effects of Father Absence, The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons | The Sentencing Project)
1 in 3 black men born in 2001 can expect to see the inside of a federal prison at some point their lifetime. Do you have any idea the effect that can have on you, economically?
The economic inequality can be considered the root cause of the problem, but the issues around policing add to (if not, totally compound) those issues. They are not entirely separate and distinct. Especially when you consider that one solution proposed by BLM would be to defund the police, then put that money into extending and improving economic welfare programmes and community engagement. The aim of this is to improve opportunities for black communities, partly by preventing over-policing which can significantly harm black people's economic opportunities by compounding the associations between black communities and criminality, and the constant and harrowing effect of tying black people up in the prison-industrial complex.
The issues of policing and economics are not separate and distinct. They are all part of the same system of inequality that adds up to the vast economic disparity we see today. You can talk about reforming both and, in my opinion, it is absolutely necessary to do so.
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