Obama’s Dismissal of ‘Defund the Police’ Hides an Inconvenient Truth

Politicians continue to misframe abolitionist thinking — while the system continues to devour innocent Black men

Michael Arceneaux
LEVEL
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6 min readDec 9, 2020

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Michael Arceneaux
LEVEL

New York Times bestselling author of “I Can’t Date Jesus” and “I Don’t Want To Die Poor.”