'Ours is a firmly entrenched system in which the roots of white supremacy run deep,' John Oliver said on Sunday's LastWeekTonight as he argued for drastic police reform
"Ours is a firmly entrenched system in which the roots of white supremacy run deep," the host said on Sunday's show.
"We took [this video] Saturday morning," Oliver said. "Who knows what will have happened Sunday night? Maybe they'll be using grenades, even as the New York Times to weigh in with an op-ed titled 'Why We Need to Bring Hitler Back to Life as a Robot Right Now.' They just think it's valuable that you read that point of view. I mean, they didn't, but they think that you really should.
"For a century after that, police in the South were responsible for enforcing segregation while allowing and sometimes participating in lynchings and anti-Black terrorism," he said. Even those who moved to the North still faced brutality, along with limited housing and economic opportunities. Oliver then moved on to the obstacles stopping police reform, including unions. When two Minneapolis officers decorated a Christmas tree in an offensive manner in 2018, the mayor announced they'd be fired by the end of the day, "only to have to almost immediately walk that statement back, saying that there was a process that they were required to go through by law. A year and a half later, one of those offiicer's cases is still under arbitration, Oliver noted.
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