Heard this great interview yesterday with Professor Phillip Atiba Goff.
It was this paragraph I was thinking about today:
GOFF: Yeah, and that’s a good thing because in this moment when we’re talking about defunding the police, I think we forget that it was a much quieter movement to defund schools in Black and brown communities and to defund mental health and to defund jobs and to defund architecture and parks. We’ve defunded every darn public good where Black and brown people live, so much so that policing is usually the only public good that we find. So part of the movement right now in terms of how municipalities are working is from defund to refund. These are dollars that should have been going to the community in the first place to prevent the sets of things that have people calling 911.