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The ā€˜Black Cop’ Isn’t Enough Reform to End Police Brutality

More than 25 years before Nas released ā€œCops Shot the Kid,ā€ KRS-One wrote about the ā€œBlack Cop,ā€ describing them as strategically placed props in a systemically racist system used to oppress Black people.  During slavery, there were Black overseers who beat other enslaved people. Fast forward to 1993, KRS-One wrote, ā€œBlack slave turned black cop […]

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