American Apartheid: I Can't Breathe–Black Lives Matter, By Carolyn Baker

American Apartheid: I Can't Breathe–Black Lives Matter, By Carolyn Baker

Institutional racism is the elephant in the room that has never been sufficiently addressed by white America. While talking heads on cable news channels debate the use of body cameras by local police officers as the magic bullet (no pun intended) that will alleviate police brutality, and as white Americans attempt to convince themselves that yet again, technology is our savior, no one is seriously discussing institutional racism—the shadow of all make-nice appearances of racial harmony and healing since the glory days of the Civil Rights Movement.