Cops, Capitalism, and the War on Black Life

In this program, Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, examines how police in the neoliberal era-in tandem with other state and corporate entities-have become engines of capital accumulation, government revenue, gentrification, the municipal bond market, the tech and private security industry-in a phrase, the profits of death. Kelley argues the police don’t just take lives; they make life and living less viable for the communities they occupy. The growth of police power has also fundamentally weakened democracy and strengthened “thanatocracy”-rule by death- especially with respect to Black communities.
Kelley says these same communities have produced a new abolition democracy, organizing to advance a different future, without oppression and exploitation, war, poverty, prisons, police, borders, the constraints of imposed gender, sexual, and ableist norms, and an economic system that destroys the planet while generating obscene inequality. Recorded on 03/20/2024. [7/2024] [Show ID: 39780]
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[@Joezeph592]

Brilliant work 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@emarkjacobs]

thanks for this

[@user-mm5uo5vg7q]

I was shocked when I found out that police brutality is sponsored by our government. Police departments receive government grants for arrest and ticket quotas. 🤔 I always wondered why our presidents never said or done anything to stop police brutality, it's because they are responsible for police brutality.

[@jeffharrison1090]

so, you believe ppl can break the law and, things that follow afterwards are always others systematic bias and racism and blah blah. Great.

[@ninadaly7639]

@@user-mm5uo5vg7q But the stats don’t support your assertion of police brutality. Almost every single example pointed to has been a fabricated narrative.

[@sumiland6445]

Actually, the Governors are

[@ekfreeman1]

Are you kidding?

[@runoz2839]

the ( *IF's* ) are flabbergasting... *shoulda, coulda, woulda* everything was on the po~po, right...ok he did nothing, right ...ok would rather use G.Floyd, T. Nichlos, B. Taylor cuz those are cases of RELEVANT *IF's and SHOULDA, WOULDA, COULDA* *Two by po~po & One by BOTH PARTIES* just sayin' My Condolences Family, Friends & Love One's 🙏

[@meet-ups_Eldersinthebldg]

Thank you! for speaking on this issue. Because until you do, this certain race of people believe that, everyone is in agreement with their behavior. HEAVEN has diffrent view on this. Theres a camera going at all times. It is the eyes of the CREATOR/LORD. Proverbs 15:3-5. Everyone must speak up, as if it's you, your mom, your child, dad, grandmother etc. Because if you believe it's ok. then t's ok to happen to you and your household as well. You are charged to speak up from your platform of influence. Beginning in your home. Scriptures says : Speak up for the poor, fatherless, strangers, widows 📖type these words in Google. to know what y ou are called to do and do that. 💫 Also it's good for all to know that your life here has an expiration date. Then you will answer for choices according to: 2 Corinthians 5:10 Romans 14:12 Revelation 20 Read the whole chapters in different bibles to get a full understanding of what you will face.😮

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@@meet-ups_Eldersinthebldg that's was a positive, good piece of fruit.. thank you 🙏

[@runoz2839]

huh? the first paragraph, who? (context...)

[@jeffharrison1090]

A perfect example of complete ignorance! Give a fool a podium & they will spill "their" hate to any and all that sit and listen! The trick these days, is to spill it as educational, intellectual, unemotional, detached dribble. One that speaks soft, show pictures of "defiance", people "resisting" to spark the cause! Been working for decades!

[@The10thdrago]

But when it happens to you we are suddenly supposed to care? This is why we can never unite or understand one another. Make no mistake the elites made it this way, they would be the ones who deserve your ire.

[@jeffharrison1090]

@@The10thdrago So wrong! Let's "blaming" others...AS ALWAYS! If "we" can blame others, that eliminates "us" as our own worst enemy. The white-man, systemic racism, they won't teach our kids, blah, blah...always! the "THEY" have "taught" our "kids" to steal, rob, pimp our women, sell drugs to our own, use drugs to the point that "WE" are hopelessly addicted, on and on...THEY Did It...THEY! Now we, with our our "rap" culture preaching like Sexy Red or pick a black 20-50yr male rapper with their, "I be" stealing, I be lying, I be crack smokin', I be live, I be real...lyrics are NOT THE BLAME for negative imagery or polluting kids minds by the time they are 12yrs! RIGHT! It's THEY...the others, they whites, the HATERS, the everything & anything besides US! Blame on, blame on!

[@meet-ups_Eldersinthebldg]

@jeffharrison1090 ⚡️⚡️Amazing! I thought the same about the cold- bloody, heartless coward WITH A GU.N. Give a FOOL a gun, and he goes around shooting unarmed ladies, mother, daughter, sister, auntie.

[@_VISION.]

Bet, so when you run into a cop who wants to take your life, nobody will bat an eye

[@ninadaly7639]

I’m sorry? Are you saying that Brooks, who PASSED OUT in a DRIVE-THRU, should have been allowed to walk home?? If he doesn’t want to deal with the system, don’t break the law. All that Brooks had to do was because of HIS choices of action.

[@runoz2839]

FACT!!!

[@Joezeph592]

He’s saying Brooks should have been able to live!! Not get shot dead for using the alcohol that the same system sold to him!

[@ninadaly7639]

@@Joezeph592 I see. So you don’t believe in personal responsibility? You think it’s always someone else’s fault?

[@Joezeph592]

@@ninadaly7639People don’t live in a vacuum; the society/system they’re in shapes their personality. And thus share some responsibility for their behavior.

[@ninadaly7639]

If Brooks wanted to live so much, why couldn’t he suck it up, take responsibility for HIS screw up, and do what he had to do?

[@runoz2839]

this is not police brutality...

[@_VISION.]

And you are not loved? Not even by yourself

[@runoz2839]

@@_VISION. *YES, CAN TRULY SAY LOVED & BLESSED, BY MY WHOLE FAMILY* *THANKFUL TO THE LORD FOR THAT* 🙏 . Everyone should be... 🙏

[@_VISION.]

@@runoz2839 nobody really loves you they just pretend to because you're related to them

[@runoz2839]

​@@_VISION.context? cuz said nothing bout, love ...

[@_VISION.]

@@runoz2839 your picture

[@earltaylor6071]

Seriously! You are comparing this man to victims of Jim Crow Laws; and victim's of slavery. A man who was intoxicated and fell asleep at a drive thru; a man who disregarded the law and legal directives: where is the logic in this speakers argument. Oh, I get it, this guy is compensated if he can help his buddie sale a book. Hey, let's talk about how a lot of middle and upper middle class Blacks abandoned and castigated many of the lower class Blacks; having an elitists attitude toward these Blacks. I myself was shunned by these elitists Blacks; Not until I graduated from college and matriculated in the finance world was I accepted; a fake acceptance in most cases.

[@draimonshepherd1791]

So...where do YOU teach, Professor? How much of your life have you dedicated to studying these topics? Hm? Ok, then. Shuuuuuut the fuck up 😂

[@draimonshepherd1791]

Hey...where do you teach, professor? Show me your thesis or even proof that you actually study these topics. Got nothing? Ok...shut up then

[@_VISION.]

Did you finish your thesis yet?

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This guy is nonsense

[@_VISION.]

Says you

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Another 🌈

[@_VISION.]

Another albino skinwalker