“gradual reforms within the criminal #justice system will not blunt the razors’s edge of #police brutality. Underdevelopment and the imprisonment of the black masses will not die a natural death until the real criminals within America’s powerful ruling class taste something of the bitter anguish that distorts and cripples the black majority.”
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