John Oliver devoted his whole Sunday night program to authorities brutality and how it runs hand-in-hand with white supremacy.
” The authorities have actually not simply been by the way polluted by bigotry,” Oliver explained. “For much of U.S. history, law enforcement meant implementing laws that were explicitly designed to rule over Black people“
That, he said, implies more than just extracting a “bad apple” however rather dismantling a whole system– and replacing it with something that more effectively serves the communities.
The authorities killing of George Floyd, a Black male, in Minneapolis last month set off a wave of demonstrations aro