Barack Obama: This is what you can do to reform the system that leads to police brutality. (via CNBCMakeIt)
As people across the country and the world protest the treatment of black Americans, police brutality and the killing of George Floyd, and as some U.S. cities impose curfews due to incidents of looting and violence, former PresidentSpecifically, Obama said those who care to improve racial injustice ought to pay attention to local elections.
National politics tend to dominate the public discourse, he said. And national politics are important. However effecting change in the parts of the system people interact with — like city's police force — requires local action, he said. Critically, voter turnout in these local elections "is usually pitifully low, especially among young people," Obama said.
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