Is there any force in America stronger than racism?
Greed trumps racism.
You can see greed at work right now in the major corporations who have come out in opposition to the New Jim Crow. Some corporations cannot afford to alienate educated young adults, many of whom are anti-racist and unsympathetic to homophobia and transphobia.
Suppose we pass a federal law that says if you kill anyone at all, no matter how good or bad your reason, you have to pay a $50,000 kill fee. A police officer could still pull her handgun and shoot someone sitting in a car, and she still might claim it was an accident and get away with it, but she would have to pay the fee. Wouldn't she think twice?
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