A conversation with RepMaxineWaters on the history of protest, the language of insurrection, and the 'unbelievably racist' rhetoric that Donald Trump has used
Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images In 1979, Maxine Waters was serving her first term as a California state assemblywoman from Los Angeles when one of her constituents, a 39-year-old widow named Eula Love, was shot eight times and killed in her own front yard after a dispute with police over a $22 gas bill.
Maxine Waters: I’ve been reflecting on what was going on back in the day, when I was confronting Daryl Gates, starting when the police shot Eula Love, which brought me in contact with the police commission and brought me to taking a look at what was going on with police community relations. Take a look at one of the quotes from Daryl Gates on choke holds.
MW: I had a long talk with my grandson who is very politically aware and pays attention even though he’s in the entertainment industry, about what’s different [about this moment].
MW: Look, the criminal-justice system has never really worked for black people. It’s not designed to work for black people. For the most part, police officers have been majority white and juries have been majority white, and it’s just in the past ten years that we’re starting to see black people who are judges and attorneys general and higher up within a criminal-justice system. So we have always had to struggle in a criminal-justice system.
RT: I thought of him when you were talking about Daryl Gates line about “blacks” versus “normal people,” and his statement this weekend that his supporters “love the black people,” that made so explicit that he sees black Americans as wholly distinct from his base, and his vision of “making America great again.” It’s an acknowledgment that he doesn’t see African-Americans as part of the whole of the nation he leads.
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