Does systemic racism mean all cops are racist? Let’s look at the history of US policing and police brutality to understand the problem.

While no short animation can describe the problem of systemic racism in depth--much less how to solve it--we encourage you to follow the links below to learn more and join organizations that are working to eradicate racist policies and culture in US policing.

Links:
Deconstruction: Anti-Racist Media & Action Guide - [ Ссылка ]
Anti-racist resource guide - [ Ссылка ]
Anti-Racism Resources for White People - [ Ссылка ]
Vox's guide on how to donate effectively - [ Ссылка ]
Black Lives Matter - [ Ссылка ]
Campaign Zero - [ Ссылка ]
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - [ Ссылка ]
PBS “Origin of Everything The Racist Origins of U.S. Law” [ Ссылка ]
AJ+ “History of Police Brutality” [ Ссылка ]
The Washington Post “The Origins of Policing in America” [ Ссылка ]
Ava DuVernay's “The 13th” [ Ссылка ]

Video created by:
David Baeumler
John Bosco
Nick Burns
Drew Carrow
Dylan Carrow
Jingky Gilbert
Kendall (Boo Boo) Howse
Kieran Moreira
Laura Walters

This video work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Sources:
Chicago Commission on Race Relations. 1922. The Negro in Chicago; a Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot. Chicago, IL. University of Chicago Press. URL: [ Ссылка ]

North, Anna. 2020, June, 6. How Racist Policing Took Over American Cities, Explained by a Historian. Vox. URL: [ Ссылка ]

Ortiz, Erik. 2020, June 21. Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020. NBC News. URL: [ Ссылка ]

Fine, Sidney. 1989. Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967. Ann Arbor, MI. University of Michigan Press. pp. 95–6.

Darien, Andrew. 2020, June, 3. Alice in Wonderland: Policing, Race, and Rioting. The Salem News. URL: [ Ссылка ]

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2019, August, 20. Black Codes. Encyclopaedia Britannica. URL: [ Ссылка ]

Anthony, Wendell Rev. 2017, July 20. 1967 should be commemorated, not celebrated. The Detroit News. URL: [ Ссылка ]

Boissoneault, Lorraine. 2017, July 26. Understanding Detroit’s 1967 Upheaval 50 Years Later. Smithsonian Magazine. URL: [ Ссылка ]

NAACP Criminal Justice Fact Sheet - [ Ссылка ]

Khan, Amina. 2019 August, 16. Getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black men in America. The Los Angeles Times. URL: [ Ссылка ]

Edwards, Frank, Esposito, Michael, and Lee, Hedwig. 2019, August 20 Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. URL: [ Ссылка ]

Alexander, Michelle. 2012. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness New York, NY. The New Press.

King, Ryan S. and Mauer, Marc. 2004. School and Prisons: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education. Washington, DC. Sentencing Project.

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